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Sep 08, 2010
This book basically holds the reader's hand on a gentle step-by-step journey of constructing a simple web-application with Rails. While my appreciation and understanding of what Rails can do was enhanced greatly by this book, it didn't quite go so far as to enable me to start building Rails apps on my own. I found "Agile Development with Rails", in addition to providing a similar web application example, provided more context and discussion of the concepts regarding the Rails framewo
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May 29, 2011
Very concise, focused and an excellent introduction to Rails. This is one of the resources I used to learn this great framework. I hope the author updates it for Rails 3, as there aren't so many resources as accessible as this one.
Sep 25, 2010
Too much attention focused on building the sample project which dramatically takes away from learning the more complex systems of what the Rails MVC can do.
Jan 12, 2009
The book I read to learn Rails. Fairly straight forward. Walks you through creating a social news site and explains the process step by step.
Aug 09, 2008
Great book and resource for makin' them awesome web 2.0 websites and applications.
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