Beginner

Rails Cookbook

Rails Cookbook is just like Advanced Rails Recipes packed with lots of  examples and code snippets. While Advanced Rails Recipes focuses on  complete recipes, Rails Cookbook also goes into several development principles such as RESTful web services and developing on a Mac environment. This book is great for giving you a insight snoop on different development methods and RoR implementations.

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from the author:

Rails Cookbook is packed with the solutions you need to be a proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. Recipes range from the basics, like installing Rails and setting up your development environment, to the latest techniques, such as developing RESTful web services.

With applications that are code light, feature-full and built to scale quickly, Rails has revolutionized web development. The Rails Cookbook addresses scores of real-world challenges; each one includes a tested solution, plus a discussion of how and why it works, so that you can adapt the techniques to similar situations. Topics include:

• Testing and debugging your Rails application
• Building responsive web applications using JavaScript and Ajax
• Ensuring that your application is security and performs well
• Deploying your application with Mongrel and Apache
• Using Capistrano to automate deployment
• Using the many Rails plugins
• Working with graphics

what others say:

I’ve read Agile Development with Rails and Rails Recipes, but this book was still helpful for me. ADWR is more of a “This is how it works” while this book, like Rails Recipes, is a “Here’s how to do the things you want to do” kind of book. I liked that the sections are presented in a problem/solution format; if you don’t want to solve that problem, keep flipping. The recipes covered a range of beginner to more advanced topics

By J Moody on amazon.com

The “Cookbook” series all seem to be books worth the price and shelf space. This one is no exception. I’d give it three out of five with an extra half for its timely information on Rails 1.2 and would recommend it for all Rails programmers from the absolute beginner through to all but the most experienced.

By A Williams on amazon.com

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