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by Dave Thomas (Author), David Hansson (Author), Leon Breedt (Author), Mike Clark (Author), James Davidson (Author), Justin Gehtland (Author), Andreas Schwarz (Author)
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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Rails is changing the industry, 17 Aug 2005
By Mr. Peter Cooper (Louth, Lincolnshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) (Paperback)
If you're a good Rails developer with experience, you won't lack for work nowadays (I am looking for people all the time it seems). This book has everything you need to become a good Rails developer. The experience bit is left as a reader exercise.

The cute thing about this book is how it was developed. A few months ago it was released in a "beta" PDF form and sold to early adopters. The beta readers sent back lots of corrections, suggestions, and so forth.. and, wow, the book has undergone radical changes. It's precise, it's correct, and it's totally "canon" on the standards of developing in Ruby on Rails. It ought to be though, the developer of Rails is a co-author!

I'm not going to go into what Rails is, or even what it does, as you shouldn't be here unless you know. If you need more information, go to the official Rails site which goes into it all in detail. But, this book is ace. You will not be wasting your money here if you want to be involved in the next massive thing in Web development. Put down your PHP books, and get involved in the exciting world of Rails.. your bank manager will thank you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The only place to start with RubyOnRails, 4 Jan 2007
By GS Colborne "Gavin Colborne" (London) - See all my reviews
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This book is co-authored by the creator of Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, with the Dave Thomas, the author of 'Programming Ruby' (otherwise known as The PickAxe book).

You simply cannot go wrong with this one, it is written assuming you know nothing about Rails or Ruby and gives a fantastic introduction to them both, but especially to Rails.

Starting out with 'Hello World' and then building a useful web application called 'Depot', an online store, explaining at a good level what is going on in the framework at all times it then finishes off with some more advanced chapters on Active Record (the model), Deployment and Scaling etc...

What I like about Ruby on Rails, that this book communicated so well to me, coming from a mainly Perl (with a little Java experience) background, is the great advantages of Model View Controller architecture, Object Relational Mapping, Test Driven Development and other topics without ever talking down or over-complicating as so many techie books seem to do.

Other good chapters include: 'Web 2.0 (with AJAX)', 'Web Services with Rails', 'Securing your Application' and an 'Introduction to Ruby' which is based on The PickAxe tutorial.

To learn more about Ruby, once you have completed this book, (and you will complete it as Rails is such a great technology you will simply want to know more about Ruby to get deeper into Rails!) you should get Dave Thomas's 'Programming Ruby'.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant pace for quick results, 3 Feb 2007
By Mr. M. Wilson (Wrexham, North Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
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I am working through the examples in the book and find the pace is spot-on. When I start learning a new language, library or framework, I like to see quick results and then delve deeper to learn the details. That's how Rails works and it's how this book works. I am learning Rails very quickly and am continually amazed at the power of this remarkable framework. For anyone who wants to learn Rails, I can highly recommend this book. It isn't essential to know much Ruby before starting this book, but if you are new to the language, then Dave Thomas' "Programming Ruby" is an excellent companion.
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3.0 out of 5 stars a word of caution
I bought this book. Its well written, with a good style. However

The current book is written for Rails 1.2.X - the current version is 2.2.2, and version 2.2. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not Good For A Beginner To Programming
I'm an experienced developer in HTML and CSS so I thought I'd try my hand at my first real programming and hop on the latest band wagon of Ruby on Rails. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book but currently out of date
At the time of writing this review, the current edition of the book (edition 2) is out of date and is not designed for Rails 2.0. Read more
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This book is very well structured and written but if you are new to RAILS remember to use version 1.2.6 to avoid incompatibility issues. Read more
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This book gave me a great starting point for building an e-commerce website in Ruby on Rails. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to dive into Ruby on Rails.
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