With the fast paced changes that Ruby on Rails is going through it is often handy to have some notes aside. These remind you of the Ajax, activerecord and REST principles.
Every Ruby on Rails programmer probably owns one of the three editions of this book. Since it’s first edition this book has been updated to use Rails 2 and the RESTful approuch. As with the previous editions of the book, it start’s with an extended tutorial that builds parts of an online store.
Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails provides everything needed to get started, with great examples and clear explanations. The author provides detailed instructions for building a basic Facebook application, and then adds more complex features such asnews feeds and asynchronous messaging. Tips are also provided for using Facebooker, a Ruby library that is really handy [...]
If you’re on a Mac and you are a developer of any sorts, you should be using Textmate. This lightweight editor puts you back in control of programming. TextMate is not an IDE but by using its powerful snippets and macros, it can often provide features that even a language specific IDE lacks.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
While this book might not be for beginners it still is a great resource to learn basic skills by example. This book gives you a real world perspective on how to build a webapplication in ruby on rails and what things complicate the development process and how to solve them.
If you’re a Ruby on Rails developer, you really should have this book on your shelf. Advanced Rails Recipes is full of real-world code snippets and priceless tips.
Deploying Rails applications has been one of my biggest pitfalls. Ones you get the hang of it it is not that difficult, but there are like a million different methods deploying and setting up rails applications and there are also like a million different ways on how this can go wrong.