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Summary: The book to get when trying to learn Rails
Comment: I have this book and some others and this one by far is the better book. It works at a good pace and answers a lot of questions in sidebars, just as your were thinking of them.
I did go back and get Ruby for Rails to strengthen my Ruby knowledge, but with these two you should have a firm foundation for building Database enabled Web applications.
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Summary: Agile Web Development With Rails
Comment: This book is really cool, you really should read it.
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Summary: Rails makes Java look bad
Comment: Rails is a great web development framework. It makes Java web frameworks look silly. The book is an easy read with great examples. I will be using it to help write our new web frontend of our next product.
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Summary: All Technical Books Should be Written Like This One
Comment: As a web developer, I own literally hundreds of technical books - most of are either thick tomes full of encyclopedic information you'll never use in real life. This book is perfect for learning rails. You jump right in and develop an application - getting a taste for what you'd be doing in real life right away. Datailed explanations are left for later, when you better understand how the platform actually works.
The example application you'll develop, if you follow the book as you should, is a real-world shopping cart type app. Along the way you'll pick up some agile development.
I would not recommend this book to absolute beginners to web development - you should understand some basic web development. This book takes you through everything from installing rails and MySQL to deployment.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Comment: When approaching a relatively new platform coming from a substantially more established one, the first question that rises is, "what about literature?" This book single-handedly answered any qualms or doubts our team had about Rails documentation/literature. Dave's exposition is bar none as is his knowledge in the subject. His writing is straight forward, no-nonsense, and w/o using arcane/ethereal words to make himself look smarter. This book embodies both the Rails philosophy and the Ruby philosophy; it's simple, to the point and gets the job done. It's about the only book that comes to mind that really does a good job at presenting the framework/language to the beginner, re-inforcing knowledge to the intermediate Rails programmer and teaching new things to advance Ruby programmers. All without confusing or neglecting either target audience. Our team owns several copies of about 7-8 different Rails book, and I can say with confidence that we refer to Mr. Thomas' book about 95% of the time, perhaps more. In short, great book, great author, well organized and a must in your or your team's bookshelf.
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