# Ruby on Rails: Up and Running in print or PDF

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-up-and-running-in-print-or-pdf/67254>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 1, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-up-and-running-in-print-or-pdf/67254 "2006-09-01T17:30:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-up-and-running-in-print-or-pdf/67254/1 "2006-09-01T17:30:46Z")

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Ruby on Rails: Up and Running - You can now buy this must-have book in  
our usual high-quality print format, or in a fully searchable and  
bookmarked PDF for 50% off the print book price. This compact guide  
from O’Reilly teaches you the basics of Ruby on Rails, the  
super-productive new way to develop full-featured web applications.  
Discover how to install and use both the Ruby scripting language and  
the Rails framework. More advanced material shows you just how fast  
Ruby on Rails can go.

> **[Ruby on Rails: Up and Running](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ruby-on-rails/0596101325/)**
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> Ruby on Rails is the super-productive new way to develop full-featuredweb applications. With Ruby on Rails, powerful web applications thatonce took weeks or months to develop can now be produced … - Selection from Ruby on Rails: Up and Running...

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**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-up-and-running-in-print-or-pdf/67254/2 "2006-09-01T18:24:53Z")

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zoat wrote:

> Ruby on Rails: Up and Running - You can now buy this must-have book in

Is this poster a press release bot?

–  
James B.

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally  
for machines to execute.”

- H. Abelson and G. Sussman  
(in "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)

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**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-up-and-running-in-print-or-pdf/67254/3 "2006-09-01T19:31:10Z")

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On 9/1/06, James B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> zoat wrote:
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> > Ruby on Rails: Up and Running - You can now buy this must-have book in  
> > Is this poster a press release bot?

I think so.

I don’t think it’s a PR bot that has been authorized, as such (that  
is, I don’t think that that the publishers of RoR:UaR, or the owners  
of the blogs, have authorized the spamvertisement).

The username is “borgone” backwards.

-austin