About this title: The definitive, Jolt-award winning guide to learning and using Rails is now in its Second Edition. Rails is a new approach to web-based application development that enables developers to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications using less code and less effort. Now programmers can get the job done right and still leave work on time. The book has been updated to take advantage of all the new Rails 1.2 features. The sample application uses migrations, Ajax, features a REST interface, and illustrates new Rails features. There are new chapters on migrations, active support, ...
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Description: Fine. By Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Dunca; ISBN: 0977616630; Pub. : Pragmatic Bookshelf; Pub. Date: 2006-12-14; Media: Paperback; Weight: 40.16 oz.; (2008JZ11170943) 2006 SOFTCOVER EDITION WITH 719 PAGES, STATED 2ND EDITION, VERY CRISP AND CLEAN BOOK. by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Dunca; ISBN: 0977616630; Pub. : Pragmatic Bookshelf; Pub. Date: 2006-12-14; Media: Paperback; Weight: 40.16 oz.; (2008JZ11170943) 2006 SOFTCOVER EDITION ... read more
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Edition: Second Edition Used
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Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780977616633ISBN:0977616630
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"In general, this book does a fairly good job of helping you create a rails-based application. Part 3 includes some great in-depth information on the topics that are briefly discussed in Part 2.
I only have one real gripe about this book. It packs in lots of topics (e.g. db theory, AJAX, unit testing, security, deployment), but it doesn't really tell you much about them. Therefore, if you have a problem, then good luck figuring it out using the content in the book.
A good example is the final chapter which covers deployment. The chapter devotes only a few small paragraphs to configuring Apache for passenger. To me, this section was completely useless unless you were already an expert with Apache configuration. I ended that chapter with a broken Apache server and no resources (from the book) to begin fixing it.
Another problem that I had with that chapter is that it really didn't follow the pattern that the chapters in Part 2 used. In those chapters, the authors would should you how to do something relatively small, show you how to test it, and then provide some troubleshooting information if the task was particularly complex. The deployment chapter gave you a *very brief and generalized* tutorial in each section, and then just assumed that everything went perfectly. It didn't show you how to test anything, and it didn't help you troubleshoot any possible problems.
Don't get me wrong. I know that no book will provide all of the information that I would ever need about a subject, and thank goodness for the internet in these situations. I was just hoping that all of the chapters in a book that I actually bought would provide better information than some person's blog.
So in general, I guess I would have to say that this was a very good book with some bad chapters that were tacked-on at the end."
"A great introduction to Ruby on Rails. It has a practical approach as it gets you through building a simple web store application. Good to know some Ruby before jumping into Rails. However, this book does include a 10 or so page crash course on Ruby."
"Decent book to learn rails. I'm a total noob when it comes to web apps, yet this book was good enough to get me through my first site. The approach they take is to write a full website first, then go back and fill in the details. I think this was a good approach as long as you're willing to do the whole example site along with the book. However, it made it hard to use the book as a reference once you run off on your own. Many times I knew I had seen a topic in the book and couldn't find it later. I suspect this is as good a rails learning book you'll find, but if you're serious about developing in rails this book won't be quite enough. In addition to this one, you'll want to pick up a ruby reference and either a rails cookbook or a true rails reference."
"A great introduction to Rails and also a great continuing reference, at least until Rails updates again. Each version is kept up to date with the latest released version of rails and Edition 3 has been updated for 2.2.2."
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