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Simply Rails 2

Simply Rails 2.0 is yet another learn by example type book. You will learn the abc’s of developing in rails. The big difference is that this book is orientated on Rails 2.0.It is the most up to date version or RoR book, excellent if you are beginning with RoR and want to begin with the most recent version of rails.

from the author:

Unlike other Rails books, this book doesn’t assume that you are an experienced web developer, or that you’ve used Ruby before. An entire chapter is devoted to learning Ruby in a fun way, using the interactive Ruby console, so you can follow along at home. You’ll be an accomplished Ruby programmer in no time!

The example application that the book builds – a user-generated news web site – is built upon with each following chapter, and concepts such as sessions, cookies and basic AJAX usage are gradually introduced. Different aspects of Rails, such as user authentication, session cookies, and automated testing are explored with each feature that is added to the application.

The book finishes with chapters on debugging, benchmarking and deployment to a live web server.

By the end of the book, you’ll have built a fully-featured Web 2.0 application and deployed it to the Web. And all code is up-to-date for Rails 2.0, so you can begin coding immediately with the latest version of Rails.

what others say:

Amongst the plethora of Rails books, only a few cover 2.0+, and even fewer do a decent job of it. This book covers Rails 2.0.2 incrementally from the ground up, and there’s even a decent intro to Ruby for those completely new to the language.

Patrick Lenz thoroughly covers the basics, RESTful routing, plugins, testing, etc., and also teaches several tips, tricks, and shortcuts of the trade…things that you may not easily deduce by reading the API. Practically every concept covered is matched with hands-on exercises while developing the book’s application. The code is accurate and virtually errata-free.

By Scott Gardner on amazon.com

This is one of the best beginner web app books i have ever seen (I’ve read books on rails, PHP , django, Zope, but not too much on .NET, ASP or java). The author takes the approach that he will introduce one coherent topic at a time thoroughly, with as little source code as possible, without digressions, exceptions or comparisons to other languages (perl, PHP, java). This he does admirably.

By Pounding on the keyboard on amazon.com

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