We just got email from our editor Keir where he said he’d got his
hands on our new book, Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce. His mail
didn’t
include the words “f*cking awesome” [1], but instead “superb” and
“a work of art”, which we think are almost as good.
This means that the book will hit the shelves before you can say
“Heinemeier”, so be sure to get yours while it’s still hot.
We wanted to make our book such that you can “read” it while you’re
sitting in front of your computer. It’s completely project-driven,
meaning the content is divided by task, and that you can build
the sample application in small iterations, learning the
background details on the fly.
As one of the core philosophies of Rails is to support best
practices, we decided to do that as well. Most of the tasks are
written test-driven, giving you a glimpse of the ease with which
TDD can be used in Rails and the power it brings compared to a
traditional, ad-hoc web application development process.
We hope you enjoy the book as much as we enjoyed the journey of
writing it.
We just got email from our editor Keir where he said he’d got his
hands on our new book, Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce. His mail
I got my copy yesterday (via Amazon). I thumbed through it last night
and I have to say I like how the book and content was layed out. I’m
planning to devote some time to working through the book tonight.
Looked like there was a lot of goodies and tricks in it.
Does this book have any content related to coupon codes / discounts?
Didn’t see anything in the TOC, and is one of the things I’m most
interested in.
Thx,
Dave
Guess that’s a no.
Dave,
No, unfortunately it was already a bit out of scope for the book. Have
you seen The Money Train
(http://agilewebdevelopment.com/rails-ecommerce) by Ben Curtis? It is
an ebook that has just that kind of short, more advanced “recipes” for
Rails ebusiness sites.
Chapter 12 looks like it advocates using Lighty + FastCGI for
production. Is this a case of needing lead time before the book could
be published, or do you really prefer this setup over mongrel?
No, unfortunately it was already a bit out of scope for the book. Have
you seen The Money Train
(http://agilewebdevelopment.com/rails-ecommerce) by Ben Curtis? It is
an ebook that has just that kind of short, more advanced “recipes” for
Rails ebusiness sites.
Yeah, I have that PDF book and it is a bit vague on all aspects (as it
states in it’s sale page). As far as coupons / discounts it pretty much
says “they’re hard, so we’ll cover the easy aspects of them” which is
how to do percentage or total off discounts.
What I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around is doing discounts based
upon quantity or associated products (buy this, get this for X off) kind
of things which I haven’t been able to find much info online about.
