Best Book For Rails

Rails
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Hello all,

I would like to see some of the opinions you guys have on the best book
for learning rails. I am interested in developing an article site, but
instead of using the regular PHP I wanted to try this one with rails.
Can any of you give me some suggestions? Thank you.

Cheers,
Josh

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Hi Josh, if you would like to learn the Rails framework, I would
highly recommend the following two books and read them in the given
order:

a) “Programming Ruby” by Dave T. et al
Note: Please read and understand Chapters 1 - 9 before going to
(b)

b) “Agile Web D. with Rails 2ed” by Dave T. et al
Note: Please read and understand the entire book.

Good luck,

-Conrad

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In my opinion, Ruby for Rails is the best rails book. Way to few rails
developers know ruby well enough to do powerfull stuff - the real power
in rails lies in ruby.

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I gotta second the imperative for learning Ruby. Rails is Ruby. Ruby
isn’t
[just] Rails but Rails most certainly is Ruby. The better grasp you have
on
Ruby’s wondrous bag of tricks the better you’ll be able to command
Rails’
own special brand of magic.

RSL

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Both Ruby for Rails and the new AWDwR 2nd ed are outstanding books. In
my humble opinion

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[email protected] wrote:

In my opinion, Ruby for Rails is the best rails book. Way to few rails
developers know ruby well enough to do powerfull stuff - the real power
in rails lies in ruby.

It is an excellent book, and in my opinion better than pickaxe for
learning Ruby with or without Rails, but for learning Rails you need
Agile, otherwise you miss out on things like migrations and tests.
Agile also covers the Rails material in more depth. Ideally, you have
both, they complement each other superbly.

I say this from the perspective of someone who is currently using both
books to come up to speed on Rails (and who is discovering that he
really didn’t know Ruby half as well as he thought he did :-))

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On Jan 20, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Josh G. wrote:

I would like to see some of the opinions you guys have on the best
book
for learning rails. I am interested in developing an article site, but
instead of using the regular PHP I wanted to try this one with rails.
Can any of you give me some suggestions? Thank you.

Everyone’s right. The Dave T. books on Pragmatic Programmers are
must-have and all-you’ll-ever-need-to-have:

Programming Ruby
Agile Web D. with Rails

Jose
…
Jose Hales-Garcia
UCLA Department of Statistics
[email protected]

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It depends on your background and on what your goals are.

If you have no Ruby experience I recommend Ruby for Rails. Then Agile
Web D. with Rails.

If you have little programming experience the new book Rails Solutions
provides a clear and gentle introduction.

I have a short review of most of the available books on my blog:
http://www.mslater.com/2007/1/4/ruby-on-rails-books

Michael S.
www.mslater.com