# Should I get Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers) Book?

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**Created:** [November 11, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/should-i-get-agile-web-development-with-rails-pragmatic-programmers-book/153046 "2008-11-11T15:11:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![bena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bena)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/should-i-get-agile-web-development-with-rails-pragmatic-programmers-book/153046/1 "2008-11-11T15:11:38Z")

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I’m an experienced programmer, working for a lot of years in the  
industry, and have been learning Ruby recently. I wondered if it was a  
good idea to buy the Agile Web D. with Rails (Pragmatic  
Programmers) book, or should I wait for an update for 2.0?

TIA

Ben

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**Author:** ![bena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bena)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/should-i-get-agile-web-development-with-rails-pragmatic-programmers-book/153046/2 "2008-11-11T15:43:20Z")

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Hello Ben,

I don’t know, if you speak german, but if you do, I would wait for the  
a newer version of the book to come and would read the galileo open  
book in the meantime:  
[Rheinwerk Computing :: Ruby on Rails 2 – Das Entwickler-Handbuch :: openbook](http://openbook.galileocomputing.de/ruby_on_rails/).  
Maybe you’ll find a open book in english language.

Greetings,  
ms

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**Author:** ![bena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bena)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/should-i-get-agile-web-development-with-rails-pragmatic-programmers-book/153046/3 "2008-11-11T16:01:33Z")

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On their website you can have a preorder of the Hard Cover book, and  
waiting for it, you’ll the book on pdf (and you can regenerate it at  
every update).

It works very well 😉

Nic

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**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/should-i-get-agile-web-development-with-rails-pragmatic-programmers-book/153046/4 "2008-11-11T16:10:22Z")

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On Nov 11, 8:31 am, Nicolas Alpi aka Spyou [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> On their website you can have a preorder of the Hard Cover book, and  
> waiting for it, you’ll the book on pdf (and you can regenerate it at  
> every update).
> 
> It works very well 😉
> 
> Nic

Correct, you can get the Beta PDF (which I think is pretty complete)  
and just follow along and get a “dead tree” copy when it is released.  
You also might want to pick up Simply Rails 2 as a good place to  
start, and also The Art of Rails as another good book. Both, I think,  
cover Rails 2.x pretty well. I was able to use Simply Rails 2 with  
2.1.1, so I hope that helps.

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**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/should-i-get-agile-web-development-with-rails-pragmatic-programmers-book/153046/5 "2008-11-11T16:53:46Z")

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On Nov 11, 7:20 am, bena [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’m an experienced programmer, working for a lot of years in the  
> industry, and have been learning Ruby recently. I wondered if it was a  
> good idea to buy the Agile Web D. with Rails (Pragmatic  
> Programmers) book, or should I wait for an update for 2.0?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Ben

G’day Ben. I highly recommend Agile Web D. With Rails. It  
introduces and explains all sorts of Rails functionality and idioms in  
very clear, easy-to-understand ways. I also found it more efficient  
for getting started with, and learning Rails, than from reading  
disjoint articles and blog posts on the intertubes. I’m very happy to  
have bought the Beta PDF document.  
-Nick

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**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/should-i-get-agile-web-development-with-rails-pragmatic-programmers-book/153046/6 "2008-11-11T22:27:33Z")

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Besides the example depot application, I can’t imagine the book  
covering a great deal more than the new rails guides:

> **[Ruby on Rails Guides](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/)**
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> Ruby on Rails Guides