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...dn''t realized is how much the Ruby basis makes that easy and natural to do so. The author illustrates this idea in several ways. The first area is adding functionality to a controller. To do so, he shows a sample from a live Rails application, the Ruby Change Request site (http://www.rcrchive.net <http://www.rcrchive.net/> ). There he points out that the site authors were able to achieve easy sorting capabilities in the displayed table by adding a short, relatively simple Ruby function. He then writes a "link_to_order" method on top of the normal Rails "link_to&qu...

...ce, scheduled to debut in June, 2006. David?s book ?Ruby for Rails: Ruby techniques for Rails developers? is due out from Manning Publications this Spring. David is the chief author of Ruby?s standard scanf library, the creator and maintainer of the Rails-based Ruby Change Request Archive (?RCRchive?), and the chief developer of the Rails applications behind the Ruby FAQ. He contributed three chapters (?days?) to ?Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days? (Sams, 2001). He is a frequent participant on the ruby-talk mailing list and the #ruby-lang IRC channel (freenode.net). Francis Hwang is a lo...