[OT] Help me pick a book

Rails
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Hi there,

This is slightly OT. I’ve been using Ruby on Rails and quite like it
(naturally). Also, I’m using Ruby more and more for my daily work and
scripting.

Now,I find on O’Reilly that they have an offer that equates roughly into
“Buy 2 Get 1 Free”. I already have a few of the RoR books (the usual
suspects) and I have no doubts about the next 2 books to buy - (1) Rails
Cookbook and (2) Ruby Cookbook. Both look quite good at what they
offer.

The problem is the 3rd book. I’m wondering which of the following I
should buy:
(1) In keeping with the ‘Cookbook’ theme, I could get the “CSS Cookbook”
(2) In keeping with the RoR theme, I could get “AJAX on Rails”

What do you suggest?

Cheers
Mohit.

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Hi Mohit,

Mohit S. wrote:

I’m wondering which of the following I
should buy:
(1) In keeping with the ‘Cookbook’ theme,
I could get the “CSS Cookbook”
(2) In keeping with the RoR theme, I could
get “AJAX on Rails”

What do you suggest?

My experience is that Ajax and CSS go hand-in-hand. You can do some
Ajax
using tables, but not much. Anything above the trivial with Ajax
required
learning XHTML and CSS. “The Javascript Bible” has also been very
beneficial to me WRT understanding the JS that Rails was generating for
me;
especially useful in working backwards to figure out the parameters to
the
Ajax calls.

hth,
Bill

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Bill W. wrote:

hth,
Bill
Thanks Bill,

After what you say, I’m probably leaning just a wee bit more towards the
CSS book then. It might be good to get a firmer grip on CSS and learn
some cool tricks first, and to advance to Javascript and AJAX at some
other time. The way I read it, cool CSS exists by itself but cool AJAX
needs CSS to be understood :stuck_out_tongue:

Cheers
Mohit.