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Book:   Ruby on Rails: Up and Running
Subject:   Out of date
Date:   2008-06-23 19:57:20
From:   spored
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

Sorry but I'm returning this book. It is not up to the standards that I have come to expect from O'Reilly books. It is out of date, and much of what is presented in Chapter 4 did not work, I did not bother to continue on to chapter 5 when the downloaded examples did not work. I understand that there were major changes to Rails since the book was released and on the forums there is much carping that little notice was given about the updates but there is a limit on how out of date a book can be, this book exceeds that limit.

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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