# Which Rails book is good?

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**Created:** [March 26, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-rails-book-is-good/87282 "2006-03-26T15:44:05Z")\
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Any suggestions on which book for Rails is better (I have no prior

experience in Rails, though I’ve done lots of web development in  
Perl/Ruby and MySQL):

Ruby on Rails: Up and Running: Rough Cuts Version  
from O’Reilly

Agile Web D. with Rails : A Pragmatic Guide (The Facets of  
Ruby Series)  
from the Pragmatic Programmers

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Agile Web D. with Rails was very well written in my opinion,  
but I haven’t read any of the other books.

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Is Ruby on Rails from O’Reilly out already? I thought it won’t be  
released  
until July. The Agile Web D. book is pretty good. Given that  
the author of Ruby on Rails is also a famous one (Bruce Tate), it should  
be good. (I’ve read Bruce Tate’s other works so I’m looking forward to  
this  
one as well)

removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: Any suggestions on which book for Rails  
is better (I have no prior

experience in Rails, though I’ve done lots of web development in  
Perl/Ruby and MySQL):

Ruby on Rails: Up and Running: Rough Cuts Version  
from O’Reilly

Agile Web D. with Rails : A Pragmatic Guide (The Facets of  
Ruby Series)  
from the Pragmatic Programmers

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-rails-book-is-good/87282/4 "2006-03-26T17:19:05Z")

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> Is Ruby on Rails from  
> O’Reilly out already?

Not in paper form, but O’Reilly is selling the PDF version on their  
website (which will be updated as they refine it).

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**Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-rails-book-is-good/87282/5 "2006-03-27T02:34:00Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> from the Pragmatic Programmers  
> The one I prefer actually is Ruby for Rails  
> ([Ruby for Rails](http://manning.com/books/black)).

ngw