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Summary: Great!
Comment: I wanted to learn something about RoR and this book is perfect!
Easy to read, easy to understand, with a lot of examples, perfect for beginners & for advanced users because in the middle explain a lot of interesting things!
i recommend to buy it
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Summary: Agile Web Development with Rails
Comment: Do a rail install of version 2.6.4 first otherwise the scaffolding doesn't work. How to install scaffolding with a new rails version is not explained. Very good tutor and introduction to Ruby on Rails.
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Summary: Best Beginner Tutorial for Rails, but Outdated
Comment: This book has a great introduction and tutorial for understanding rails for the beginning rails developer.
However, you may find that a considerable amount of the code in the tutorial does not work with Rails 2.0! Things like pagination and the original scaffolding methods have changed. Nevertheless, if you search through Pragmatic's forums, you may find assistance to help you understand the tutorial through the 2.0 perspective.
Now more about the tutorial itself. It's action packed and the book does a great job to help you dive right into it. The beginning chapters are basic walkthroughs with Rails Playtime in the end. Rails Playtime are tasks that you can try on your own and are absolutely fantastic for getting more grasp on the material. Answers are even available online.
Although a little outdated, Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd Ed.) has been and probably still is the best beginners tutorial for Rails out today.
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Summary: A little outdated, but great book.
Comment: This book is a little outdated since Rails 2.0 was released and some methodologies / functions are deprecated. I recommend rolling back your rails version to 1.2 to go through the examples in this book. It is a great learning tool to get you up to speed on Rails.
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Summary: Simply Put: Great Book
Comment: There's not much more you can say than this: you need this book if you're working with Ruby on Rails.
Of all the technical books I've read (and that's a LOT), only 2 more struck me as being this exceptional: "Graphic Java" by David Geary and "JavaServer Pages" by Hans Bergsten.
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