Computerworld.com has posted my review of the book RailsSpace: Building
a
Social Networking Website With Ruby on Rails
From the review:
It may be trendy, but Ruby on Rails (RoR) is also still relatively new
which means it’s not as easy to find resources to learn it as it is for,
say, Java or Struts. The publishing industry has geared up at last,
though,
and there are now several dozen options for those of us trying to teach
ourselves. RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website With Ruby on
Rails (Addison Wesley Professional, 2007) is a welcome addition to the
list.
Authors Michael H. and Aurelius Prochazka are unabashed fans. They
speak
more than once about Rails “magic” and tout Rails for making tedious,
repetitive Web development tasks “trivially easy.” If you buy into the
premise that Ruby on Rails is a great productivity booster that can make
once-dreary coding tasks fairly painless (which I do), RailsSpace offers
a
lot of hands-on, practical examples of how to use Rails intelligently. .
. .
–
(Already one commenter has taken me to task for saying that it’s not
easy to
find resources, instead of saying more explicitly that there are fewer
resources. …)
Sharon M.
Online Managing Editor
Computerworld