# \[OT\] O'Reilly Cookbooks **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 6, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-oreilly-cookbooks/62554 "2006-06-06T03:05:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfwalter)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-oreilly-cookbooks/62554/1 "2006-06-06T03:05:58Z")
Hi, Has anyone gotten the “roughcuts” of the Ruby and Rails cookbooks? If you have the Pragmattic Rails Cookbook is the O’Reilly worth it? Also can you download PDF’s of their “roughcuts”. The website is kind of vague, it just mentions online access (whatever that means). Thanks in advance. * * * What’s an Intel chip doing in a Mac? A whole lor more that it’s ever done in a PC. My Digital Life - [http://scottwalter.com/blog](http://scottwalter.com/blog) Pro:Blog - [http://scottwalter.com/problog](http://scottwalter.com/problog) Snippets - [http://snippets.scottwalter.com](http://snippets.scottwalter.com) ---
**Author:** ![sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfwalter)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-oreilly-cookbooks/62554/2 "2006-06-06T03:12:05Z")
The Rails Recipe’s book is excellent, I would recommend picking that one up, I use it a lot more than I expected I would. ~Jamie ---
**Author:** ![sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfwalter)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 5:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-oreilly-cookbooks/62554/3 "2006-06-06T05:53:46Z")
On 6/5/06, Scott W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Has anyone gotten the “roughcuts” of the Ruby and Rails cookbooks? If you > have the Pragmattic Rails Cookbook is the O’Reilly worth it? Also can you > download PDF’s of their “roughcuts”. The website is kind of vague, it just > mentions online access (whatever that means). A Rough Cuts book shows up as a zero-slot book in the Safari bookshelf. You can download it as a PDF whenever you want to. – James ---
**Author:** ![sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfwalter)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-oreilly-cookbooks/62554/4 "2006-06-06T16:53:28Z")
Scott W. wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone gotten the “roughcuts” of the Ruby and Rails cookbooks? If > you have the Pragmattic Rails Cookbook is the O’Reilly worth it? Also > can you download PDF’s of their “roughcuts”. The website is kind of > vague, it just mentions online access (whatever that means). > > Thanks in advance. Hi Scott. You can download PDFs, but my experience with the Roughcuts has not been great. Things may have moved on since I first got my copies (January), but to be honest I haven’t bothered to go look… I’ll just wait for the paper books. [http://blog.alancfrancis.com/2006/01/oreilly\_rough\_c.html](http://blog.alancfrancis.com/2006/01/oreilly_rough_c.html) Alan ---
**Author:** ![sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfwalter)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-oreilly-cookbooks/62554/5 "2006-06-06T17:07:46Z")
Scott, I picked up the Rails and the Ruby cookbook from OReilly. Both have been pretty good, the Rails book is a little lean tho, and I was surprised at how useful the Ruby book has been, I actually bought the Ruby cookbook accidentally. I did find the Pragmatic pair of books (Agile Web Development with Rails, and Programming Ruby (the pickaxe book)) more fun to read and work through…but keep in mind the OReilly roughcuts are exactly that, they’re books in progress and will likely get better… -Andre ---
**Author:** ![sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@sfwalter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfwalter)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-oreilly-cookbooks/62554/6 "2006-06-06T16:54:08Z")
Alan F. wrote: > [http://blog.alancfrancis.com/2006/01/oreilly\_rough\_c.html](http://blog.alancfrancis.com/2006/01/oreilly_rough_c.html) …and [http://blog.alancfrancis.com/2006/01/spot\_the\_differ.html](http://blog.alancfrancis.com/2006/01/spot_the_differ.html)