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Summary: Excellent Book - Must have to really understand Rails
Comment: First of all, I have been a computer programmer for 34 years. I really do not like writing code, so I have always been attracted to methodologies and technologies that write code for you or abstract the process to a higher level than writing each and every line of code.
I have been working on Ruby for Rails development in my spare time and realized that what was missing was my understanding of Ruby.
I found this book mentioned in a blog and ordered it.
This is an excellent book. It presents Ruby in a very manner that ties in with the Rails framework. If you are struggling with all of the mysterious Rails syntax, this book will show you why you are struggling.
The PickAxe book is a real reference. This book has very short simple examples of each code concept and from just reading the book, I have gotten a very good view of Rudy.
I would encourage you to read the whole book. Concepts get repeated and built upon in each chapter.
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Summary: Truly Ruby for Rails (not just another Rails book)
Comment: This is almost TWO BOOKS IN ONE.
Stepping from the very basics, this is one of the few books on the subject that first lays the foundation of Ruby as a scripting language.
It is easy to see the benefits of the Rails framework with a working knowledge of the underlying language (Ruby).
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Summary: A must have when starting out with Ruby on Rails
Comment: I half read "Agile Web development with Rails" and while I found it very good on getting me upto speed with Rails, I was lost in some of the Ruby code. This book explains the Ruby code and fills in a lot of the blanks. I now regularily switch between the 2 and find I have all the information I need at my fingertips. (It also helps to have the pick axe book to hand). Ruby is the language I have always known existed but couldn't quite find before Rails came along.
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Summary: When you want to understand how rails works get this book
Comment: This book should be in the first five books you get on Ruby/Ruby on Rails. It tells you how things work under the covers and brings your Ruby knowledge up to par. You can write Ruby on Rails applications without this book, but once you really want to understand what you are actually doing with symbols, hashes, modules, classes, etc, then get this book.
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Summary: Indispensable!
Comment: There's little I can add to what has already been mentioned in the other reviews for this book. However, I would like to say that this book made the Ruby/Rails duo very much clearer. I had already purchased and mostly read the other two obligatory books (Agile Web Development with Rails and Programming Ruby), but the concepts weren't clicking. (Perhaps I'm getting old.) This book immediately lifted the fog and provided me with the elusive but rewarding "Ah-ha" moment.
Many Ruby on Rails tutorials step through the creation of an entire application with the byline of "how easy/cool/fun" the process it. However, such tutorials raise more questions than they answer. This book's code snippets are surprisingly small - a very good sign - since the author steps through the concepts line by line and intuitively answers your questions as they come to mind. It is very well written, highly valuable and well recommended.
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