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Loading... Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic…by Dave ThomasSeries: Facets of Ruby (2)LibraryThing recommendationsMember recommendationsLoading...
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I am not a fan of Dave Thomas. I prefer less chatty books with more detailed discussion. That being said, this is a great book to dive into Rails apps. and Dave's style is really very appropriate for the kind of fast, fun, satisfying experience that Rails development can offer. Man, the language has changed so much over such a short period of time that my version is practically useless now! Well, truth be known, after you have completed the example project the book is pretty useless anyway. In a way, it is like test driving a car but the dealer makes you pay for the ride. It really is just a walk-through of an example program and very little more. But the example introduces you to the main activities of Rails programming and after completion one feels pretty confident. Why four stars you ask? Cause it's funner than a jigsaw puzzle on a rainy Sunday! (  ) dohouk | Oct 4, 2009 |  Dave thomas is a pretty good writer, I thought that [b:The Pragmatic Programmer|4099|The Pragmatic Programmer From Journeyman to Master|Andrew Hunt|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165384260s/4099.jpg|7809] was an excellent book. However, alot of the garbage suggested in AWD makes me doubt how much experience the author has writing scalable, agile, high traffic web-applications.If you go into this book looking to learn how to code with rails, thats fine, but don't expect to learn to program well for the web from this book. Infact, be prepared to ignore large portions of the book.Anyway I guess this review is pretty pointless, this book is about rails 1.X. I do not recommend either using rails 1.X or reading docs on it either. If you're not pretty close to the newest version of the framework you're missing great new features, better performance, better new plugin support, and probably better stability. Reading old docs would be like reading instructions on doing it wrong. (  ) michaeleconomy | Jan 28, 2009 | A great introduction to Rails. I found the book well written and easy to follow, with only a few chapters getting too gritty to follow. The Depot app is great and I constantly referred back to the techniques used in it while making my first Rails app. This book is also a fantastic reference as it's well indexed and provides good clear descriptions to get started on many Rails features. I'll definitely be buying a copy for my own reference when the 3rd edition comes out. ( ) VVilliam | Sep 10, 2008 | Very good introduction to development with Rails. Goes over the basics quite well, although doesn't go into a lot of depth. (  ) jacklund | Nov 4, 2006 | One of the first, and so far the best book on developing web applications on Rails using Ruby. ( ) billlund | Jul 24, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 097669400X, Paperback)Rails is a full-stack, open source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications, but with a twist... A full Rails application probably has less total code than the XML you'd need to configure the same application in other frameworks. With this book you'll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic, user-centric web-pages using built-in Javascript and Ajax support. There are extensive chapters on testing, deployment, and scaling. You'll see how easy it is to install Rails using your web server of choice (such as Apache or lighttpd) or using its own included web server. You'll be writing applications that work with your favorite database (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all. You'll create a complete online store application in the extended tutorial section, so you'll see how a full Rails application is developed---iteratively and rapidly. Rails strives to honor the Pragmatic Programmer's "DRY Principle" by avoiding the extra work of configuration files and code annotations. You can develop in real-time: make a change, and watch it work immediately. Forget XML. Everything in Rails, from templates to control flow to business logic, is written in Ruby, the language of choice for programmers who like to get the job done well (and leave work on time for a change). Rails is the framework of choice for the new generation of Web 2.0 developers. Agile Web Development with Rails is the book for that generation, written by Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmer and author of Programming Ruby) and David Heinemeier Hansson, who created Rails.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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