Rebuilding Rails Table of Contents

Rebuilding Rails for Yourself
  Why Rebuild Rails?
  Who Should Rebuild Rails?
  Working Through
Getting Set Up
Zero to "It Works!"
  In the Rough
  Hello World, More or Less
  Making Rulers Use Rack
  Review
  In Rails
  Exercises
    Exercise One: Reloading Rulers
    Exercise Two: Your Library's Library
    Exercise Three: Test Early, Test Often
Your First Controller
  Sample Source
  On the Rack
  Routing Around
  It Almost Worked!
  Review
  Exercises
    Exercise One: Debugging the Rack Environment
    Exercise Two: Debugging Exceptions
    Exercise Three: Roots and Routes
  In Rails
Rails Automatic Loading
  Sample Source
  Where's My Constant?
  CamelCase and snake_case
  Reloading Means Convenience
  Putting It Together
  Review
  Exercises
    Exercise One: Did It Work?
    Exercise Two: Re-re-reloading
  In Rails
Rendering Views
  Sample Source
  Erb and Erubis
  And Now, Back to Our Program
  More Quotes, More Better
  Controller Names
  Review
  Exercises
    Exercise One: Mind Those Tests!
    Exercise Two: View Variables
    Exercise Three: Rake Targets for Tests
  In Rails
Basic Models
  Sample Source
  File-Based Models
  Inclusion and Exclusion
  Queries
  Where Do New Quotes Come From?
  Review
  Exercises
    Exercise One: Object Updates
    Exercise Two: Caching and Sharing Models
    Exercise Three: More Interesting Finders
  In Rails
Request, Response
  Sample Source
  Requests with Rack
  Responses with Rack
  Review
  Exercises
    Exercise One: Automatic Rendering
  In Rails
The Littlest ORM
  Sample Source
  What Couldn't FileModel Do? (Lots)
  No Migrations?  But How Can I...?
  Read That Schema
  When Irb Needs a Boost
  Schema and Data
  Seek and Find
  I Might Need That Later
  Review
  Exercises
    Exercise One: Column Accessors
    Exercise Two: method_missing for Column Accessors
    Exercise Three: from_sql and Types
  In Rails
Rack Middleware
  Sample Source
  Care and Feeding of Config.ru
  The Real Thing
  Powerful and Portable
  Built-In Middleware
  Custom Middleware
  More Complicated Middleware
  Middleware Fast and Slow
  Review
  Exercises
    Exercise One: Do It With Rulers
    Exercise Two: Middleware from Gems
    Exercise Three: More Benchmarking
  In Rails
Real Routing
  Sample Source
  Routing Languages
  Controller Actions are Rack Apps
  Rack::Map and Controllers
  Configuring a Router
  Playing with Matches
  Putting It Together (Again)
  Review
  Exercises
  In Rails
What Else Does Rails Do?
  Security
Appendix: Installing Ruby, Git and Bundler
  Ruby
    Windows
    Mac OS X
    Ubuntu Linux
    Others
  Git (Source Control)
    Windows
    Mac OS X
    Ubuntu Linux
    Others
  Gems
    Gem Paths
  Other Rubies