Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition
Written by Clement Faria on November 15, 2009 under Web Development.
- ISBN13: 9781934356166
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
You want to write professional-grade applications: Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional, and integration testing. It enforces good design principles, consistency of code across your team (and across your organization), and proper release management. But Rails is more than a set of best practices. Rails makes it both fun and easy to turn out very cool web applications. Need Ajax support, so your web applicati… More >>
Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition
Brenton Wejrowski
November 15, 2009 at 7:55 am
I’ve found “Simply Rails 2″ to be a much better book. You can find the first few chapters online.
This book teaches you by means of building an application. It tells you how to build it and VERY briefly explains what you’re doing. You spend more time building the application than understanding concepts. I can’t learn that way.
ALSO it NEVER explained how to use your computers commands (for OSX, the Terminal app). Didn’t explain any of it. It took me about 15 hours to get through the first phases of the app, which the author keeps ranting how easy it was and how it only took him 15 minutes..
Rating: 1 / 5
K. Truitt
November 15, 2009 at 10:38 am
This easy-to-read tome is everything, and more, I expected. No technical jargon to wade through; just simple, understandable guidance for learning how to build web applications using Ruby on Rails. I highly recommend this book to anyone seriously interested in learning this fun and amazing development platform!
Rating: 5 / 5
Jesse Lee Curry
November 15, 2009 at 12:05 pm
There’s not really too much to say other than this is the book to buy. Lots of great examples, written in an accessible format, and no steep learning curves like you see in a lot of programming books.
Plus, this is the book endorsed by the people behind Rails.
Rating: 4 / 5
Sleepless
November 15, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I bought this book because it’s the textbook for my Ruby on Rails class. It is absolutely the worst book I have ever had to use! Rails is heavily dependent on convention, and this book doesn’t discuss those conventions in any sensible manner, it only hints at them in a particular usage which is often misleading. What could they have been thinking? Bottom line, these guys don’t have the first idea of how to teach and their conviction of their own superiority bleeds through their prose, which very off putting. If you already know BOTH ruby and rails, this may be a good reference. If you’re looking to learn, pick another book.
Rating: 1 / 5
J. Harrell
November 15, 2009 at 1:11 pm
I started programming Ruby on Rails several years ago with the first edition of this book, and recently picked up the third edition to get started with Rails 2. I found the same great introduction to rails with many of the missing pieces from the first edition covered nicely now. Parts I and II provide an easy and quick start with rails, with Parts III and IV digging in deeper. The balance of high-level vs. in-depth detail is just right for me. It doesn’t waste your time re-teaching core programming concepts – you need to bring those with you. But if you are already a competent developer looking to expand into RoR, this is the right place to start.
Rating: 5 / 5