Beginner

RailsSpace

RailsSpace is a really fun book that lets you learn by example. The book covers all abc’s on developing a social network website like Facebook. While most books that let you learn by example tend to produce a not working application, RailsSpace actually has a product that works. I downloaded the example code from their website an got it working in under twenty minutes. Great Job guys!

Although the book is written for rails 1.2.3 it still has great learning value. The authors updated the code to rails 2.0 so you can easily make the jump to the latest version.

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from the author:

RailsSpace teaches you to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking website like MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster.

Inside, the authors walk you step by step from the creation of the site’s virtually static front page, through user registration and authentication, and into a highly dynamic site, complete with user profiles, image upload, email, blogs, full-text and geographical search, and a friendship request system. In the process, you learn how Rails helps you control code complexity with the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, abstraction layers, automated testing, and code refactoring, allowing you to scale up to a large project even with a small number of developers.

The book’s companion website provides the application source code, a blog with follow-up articles, narrated screencasts, and a working version of the RailSpace social network.

what others say:

RailsSpace hits the Ruby on Rails learning sweet spot

By Sharon Machlis on computerworld.com

RailsSpace does an excellent job of teaching Ruby on Rails through a hands-on, real world application. If you are like me then you probably cringed at the thought of yet another social networking site. However, after reading through the first part to this book my apprehensions were put at ease.

By Nate Klaiber on amazon.com

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