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Book:   Ruby on Rails: Up and Running
Subject:   Helpful for beginners, leaves plenty of questions and some confusion
Date:   2007-08-10 20:25:17
From:   Anonymous Reader
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

I read this as my first full pass through a RoR application. Certain chapters (actually just portions of text) were helpful, but the lack of coherency ended up causing some confusion. I am hungry for more information... I'll seek a different author / publisher, because this book is far from Definitive! It's the quality of a draft / WIP. The Testing chapter was the last one that I read, and for some strange reason, the PDF that I bought had extra text after the closing punchline of the chapter... how ironic.

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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