# Which of this Book authors have converted codes to Rails 2

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## Which of this Book authors have converted codes to Rails 2.0.2…?

Here is the List of books that offered great support for building a Real  
Life Web Tutorials along with Code in the past.

(1) Rails Solutions — Friends of Ed

(2) Rails Space — Addison Wisley

(3) Dynamic web 2.0 websites with Ruby On Rails ---- Packt Publishing

(4) Practical Rails - Social Networking Sites — Apress

Unfortunately… this books are good and useful, but the code are of no  
use, since they are in Rails 1.2.

It would be great, if authors spend a little more time in converting the  
codes and offer us Codes with rails 2.0.2, since the Books are good and  
should be preserved on shelves.

If any one is aware about the converted codes in rails 2.0.2 then pl.  
share the links here, as this will turn out to be the most useful thread  
for each Rails Developer.

Thanks

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Well code is far from useless. It’s actually a good exercise going  
through and trying to update it to Rails 2.0 style (or even to get it  
to work with 2). A good resource for changes from 1.2 is

[http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/12/7/rails-2-0-final-released-summary-of-features](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/12/7/rails-2-0-final-released-summary-of-features)

I do know that “Agile Web D. with Rails” is currently in Beta  
and is in the process of updating to highlight the newest and best  
features of Rails 2.0. And DHH is a contributing author!

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> Unfortunately… this books are good and useful, but the code are of no  
> use, since they are in Rails 1.2.

You are not expected to type the code in verbatim. You are expected to  
learn the  
patterns and styles, and these have changed very little.

Put another way, you will never be able to code Rails until you are  
comfortable  
Googling for every other new kind of statement you must write. How to  
call  
remote\_function? What to put in a named route in routes.rb? How to test  
a  
redirect between actions? You would need to look these up, _even_ if you  
had all  
four of those books, all moved up to Rails 2.0.2…

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I have to agree with Philp. The best Rails book I have read is David A  
Black’s “Ruby for Rails” The code in the first chapter doesn’t work  
but the information in the rest of the book about how ruby interacts  
with Rails is timeless. On the other hand there are “follow-me”  
tutorial books that don’t really explain the magic behind the scenes  
and having those not work would be pretty useless.

Google is your friend.