The Rails Way
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The expert guide to building Ruby on Rails applications Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional develop... read full description

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Feb 24, 2008
Adrian rated it: 4 of 5 stars
It's better than Agile Web Development w/Rails (despite the grammatical error in the first sentence of the foreword -- don't judge it by that). It is also an intermediate to semi-advanced text, so don't expect a tutorial on how to build a shopping cart.

I particularly enjoyed some of the sidebar quips -- "Wilson says... Writing applications without tests makes you a bad person, incapable of love." -- although I don't necessarily agree with them all.

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Aug 03, 2011
Ben rated it: 4 of 5 stars
The ultimate Rails desk reference. Essential for anyone looking to develop quality Rails apps. The book will increase programming productivity and enjoyment with well thought written examples. Covers Rails 2.0, Testing, Ajax, E-Mail, deployment... etc.
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Aug 04, 2011
Brian rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Pound for pound, a great book. Excellent reference. What it doesn't cover it points you to in the Rails source code. Well worth the money.
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Jul 22, 2011
Aditya rated it: 5 of 5 stars
love the tips, it's range from simple to complex problems, must have if you're Ruby on Rails professional developer
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Jan 12, 2009
Dean rated it: 3 of 5 stars
A long winded book on Rails. Great for reference and learning.
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Jan 21, 2009
Michael rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Its ok, though i usually use the online rdocs instead, since rails is under such heavy development I don't think its practical to buy any rails book thats over 3 months old.

This guy definitely is a better coder than dave thomas.
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Dec 27, 2008
Scott rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Great book that finally made the Rails web application framework (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rai...) truly understandable to me. I read the Pragmatic Rails book, but it was not as clear and detailed as this book.
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Jul 09, 2008
Josef is currently reading it
Pretty intense Reference for everything Rails
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May 09, 2008
Manda rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Not quite a reference book, but does read like one.
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