Developers who have completed on-line Ruby on Rails tutorials and perhaps have built their first basic application are a key group this book is aimed at, especially those who like what they have seen in the basic tutorials, and now want to know how to create an environment in which they can most efficiently develop new applications and improve their understanding of the Rails framework.

This book is also aimed at developers who particularly want to create data-centric applications within a private network, those who want to leverage the best of intranet applications to provide distributed easily maintained applications.

On completion of the book the reader will not only know how to write better Ruby on Rails code, but also how to create a development environment and roll out completed applications onto production systems.