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By admin ⋅ January 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Beginning Rails is the first book I ever read on Ruby on Rails. The intro part of the book nicely covers all the basics of the MVC (Model View Controller) structure rails consists of. If you are switching from PHP I really advice you to read this book.

Reading this book has tendency to get you really, really excited about Ruby on Rails. These ease in which you can create database relationships and templates is greatly covered inside this book.

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from the author:

This book is particularly well suited to those with little or no experience with web application development, or who have some experience but are new to Rails. Beginning Rails assumes basic familiarity with web terms and technologies, but doesn’t require you to be an expert.

Rather than delving into the arcane details of Rails, the focus is on the aspects of the framework that will become your pick, shovel, and axe. Part history lesson, part introduction to object-oriented programming, and part dissertation on open source software, Beginning Rails doesn-t just explain how to do something in Rails, it explains why.

Every programmer fondly remembers the book that helped them get started. The goal of Beginning Rails is to become that book for you, today.

what others say:

This is a great book for beginners like me. You’ll get a complete introduction to the Rails framework. If you already develop in Rails, look elsewhere but if you have heard the hype and want to see what all the fuss is about, take the plunge, this book will get you up to speed in no time.

By Ryan McMinn on amazon.com

I was never satisfied with “Agile Web Development with Rails”, which was the first Rails book and will forever sell a lot of copies because it was written by DHH. However, its not particularly well organized or well written.

The flow of “Beginning Rails” is much better. Every paragraph is more succinct. I consider myself a Rails expert, so much of the content I was already familiar with, but I nonetheless learned a few things (such as how to receive mail in Rails, not just send). Its useful.

I run a Rails development team and will furnish all our new engineers with a copy, unless they are already up to speed on the platform. (In which case something like “Programming Ruby” would be best.)

By John P. Green on amazon.com