Forum: Ruby on Rails Good books about the internals of Rails 3

Hi, I'm a new RoR and Ruby developer and I'm searching for some good
resources (books or website) that go a little further than books like
the railstutorial (which is excellent btw).

But after reading this, I feel like as long as I'm working with
scaffolding and simple gems, it's ok, and a lot can be accomplished with
this but I would like to have a deeper understanding of Rails behavior
and not being lost in the magic.

I recommend these two:

http://www.amazon.com/Crafting-Rails-Applications-...

http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Edition-Addison-Wesley...

Metaprogramming
Ruby<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934356476/ref=as...


2012/9/20 Everaldo Gomes <everaldo.gomes@gmail.com>

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Do you think it's still reasonable to buy those books, knowing that RoR4
will be released soon? I'm especially interested in Crafting Rails
Applications, but I don't want to buy something that will be obsolete in 
a
couple of months.


El jueves, 20 de septiembre de 2012 23:32:11 UTC+2, Fernando Almeida
escribi:

2013/1/10 Maciej Rząsa <maciejrzasa@gmail.com>

@Norbert Thanks for the constructive answer! I'm glad you noticed that
there is no difference between using two-year-old PC and 
two-year-outdated
web framework!

More seriously: changes between RoR2 and RoR3 were quite significant, so
buying a book about RoR2 internals to use it with Rails3 was rather a 
bad
idea. I'm trying to learn if it's the same in this case.


2013/1/10 Norbert Melzer <timmelzer@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Maciej Rząsa 
<maciejrzasa@gmail.com>wrote:

> @Norbert Thanks for the constructive answer! I'm glad you noticed that
> there is no difference between using two-year-old PC and two-year-outdated
> web framework!
>
> More seriously: changes between RoR2 and RoR3 were quite significant, so
> buying a book about RoR2 internals to use it with Rails3 was rather a bad
> idea. I'm trying to learn if it's the same in this case.
>

I suggest you weigh at the pros and cons.  If you can wait for a couple 
of
months for the release of rails 4
and another or 2 for a good book, then I'd say wait.  But in those 
months,
you could've already acquired a
good deal of knowledge when you buy a rails 3 book.  There are some new
stuff going out in rails 4 like
turbolinks, doll caching and strong parameters, all of which are kind of 
an
upgrade to the version that rails
3 is using so you might want to look at how those work at the moment 
while
waiting for rails 4.


>>> will be released soon? I'm especially interested in Crafting Rails
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