# Review: RailsSpace

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/review-railsspace/112157>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 15, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/review-railsspace/112157 "2007-08-15T23:37:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/review-railsspace/112157/1 "2007-08-15T23:37:56Z")

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[Computerworld.com](http://Computerworld.com) has posted my review of the book RailsSpace: Building  
a  
Social Networking Website With Ruby on Rails

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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. .  
. .

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## (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

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