Rails Crash Course: A No-Nonsense Guide to Rails Development

by Anthony Lewis

Rails is a massively popular web development platform embraced by Ruby programmers everywhere. In "Rails Workshop," author Anthony Lewis shows you how to harness Rails to build web applications that are fast, stable, and secure. Hands-on examples throughout cover the basics and, once the basics are out of the way, Lewis demonstrates how to create a complete Tumblr-style social network application, which includes users, posts, comments, and authentication. You will also learn how to handle security, improve performance, and debug problems in Rails applications.

Genres: Programming, Software

296 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2014

Reviews

[Oscar Estrada · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book to get started with Ruby on Rails. It has great explanations of how to do things the Ruby way and it is not boring at all.

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an okay read.

I can't say that I enjoy Rails over ASP.NET MVC and Python, but I thought it was still a good language to learn.

3.8/5

[Arthur · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars mostly because it is quite outdated already and if you program Rails on Windows this book is not solving all the pain of dealing with various maladies, especially many encountered around Bootstrap, but forums do.

You will be able to create a pseudo-para-production ready web app though.

I generally like No Starch books that appear to come out more thorough and real usage ready even though fewer subjects on the same topic offered.

This book may prepare a beginner well, but whether one would be able to work in a corporate/startup environment/company remains questionable.

Next, need to find what is next book to go one level up.