Jump Start Rails

by Andy Hawthorne

In just a few short years, Ruby on Rails has grown from cool, hipster upstart to global powerhouse. Developers around the world are passionate about Rails, and with good reason.

BUILD FAST with 60,000+ ready-to-go Ruby gems, powerful, new functionality is a never more than a few keystrokes away.

DISCOVER Test-driven development for better programming practices.

SCALE APPS Look at GitHub, Twitter, Hulu, and Penny Arcade. All huge. All successful. All Rails.

GET HIRED Search any job board, there's massive demand for Rails developers.

Those who have jumped onboard the Ruby on Rails train have never looked back and neither will you.

Learn Rails and you'll write better code, faster, spend less time setting up and maintaining code and more time building.

Consider this book an investment in your career. There's a huge and growing demand for developers with Rails skills, just look at any job board.

Learn Rails this weekend.

Genres: Programming, Web, Technology

150 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 28, 2013

Reviews

[Kai Weber · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book provides what the title promises: A jump start. It might not be a healthy way to start, and not one that keeps you engine healthy, but it gives you a brief overview over the layout and philosophy of the Rails framework. (Which is quite different to everything I personally have seen before, because I never worked with code generators other than a bit of time spent with a UI design helper.) The book takes you from local installation all the way to deploying a finished website on a web server. Though the book is brief, it does have the time for a little bit of repetition, in a good, didactically sound way. Nevertheless, the learning curve is steep, and the book does not bother to explain any of the syntax of the Ruby programming language, so you need to get your Ruby training elsewhere. Adding a chapter or two about Ruby would have made the book rounder and more welcoming to newcomers.

[Howard Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just finished to read this book. Really clear and simple explanation. it's worth to read for who want to start RoR development.