# Ruby for Rails Rocks!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-for-rails-rocks/60858>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 18, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-for-rails-rocks/60858 "2006-05-18T00:15:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![dpitman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dpitman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dpitman)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-for-rails-rocks/60858/1 "2006-05-18T00:15:06Z")

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Folks,

Just finished reading (okay, skimming) Ruby for Rails.

It’s an excellent choice for someone who is new to Ruby and new to  
Rails.

Props to David Black for writing such an excellent book.

It is definitely worth buying.

Thanks,

David

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**Author:** ![dpitman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dpitman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dpitman)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-for-rails-rocks/60858/2 "2006-05-26T02:21:12Z")

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David P. wrote:

> Just finished reading (okay, skimming) Ruby for Rails.  
> It’s an excellent choice for someone who is new to Ruby and new to Rails.  
> Props to David Black for writing such an excellent book.  
> It is definitely worth buying.

I have to add my kudos, as well. It’s a spectacular effort.

For a practicing designer and developer, this book is an  
ideal introduction to both Ruby /and/ Rails.

The content list looked good enough to buy it–especially  
since, as someone wrote elsewhere, it spends a fair amount  
of time on “those interesting language features you wish you  
understood a little better”.

So I was excited to crack the covers. But when I started  
reading it, I was even more impressed. It’s beautifully  
written, and brilliantly sequenced.

It’s hard to imagine how much effort went into sequencing  
the material. Here’s a small example:

In the section that introduces IRB in Chapter 1,  
the author sneaks in the little tidbit that an  
assignment is an expression that has a value. That  
point will undoubtedly become important later on, when  
more advanced concepts are discussed, so I was struck by  
how adroitly the concept was presented early on–  
innocuously, almost innocently.

In short, it’s a book I wish I had written. But I’m glad  
that I have it to read.

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**Author:** ![dpitman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dpitman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dpitman)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-for-rails-rocks/60858/3 "2006-05-26T04:54:35Z")

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ditto, it’s very good