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Ruby on Rails: Up and Running |
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Marred by inaccuracies and missing code |
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2007-05-13 04:54:10 |
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rklaeboe
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This could have been a good book. A revised edition that cleans up the example and provides more background on the working of the Javascript will be. The Photos example is a good test case for a Rails application and for showing off Javascript.
However, working throught the examples was hard work. Since the code for the final running application is not supplied, it is not always clear which code fragments have been kept and what has been left out. Some examples messes up the flow of going through the Photos example, and the double scaffolding messes up the rails project file structure by providing both a slideshows and a slideshow controller etc. Several of the code fragments are incomplete. The experience of getting the Photos project to work became quite frustrating.
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"If you've learned Ruby and you're ready to take the next step to Rails, this is definitely a decent choice for a quick immersion without wading through 900 pages of technical reference."
--Thomas "Duffbert" Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings