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Ruby on Rails: Up and Running |
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The book accomplishes its goals! |
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2008-08-08 13:37:19 |
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sohdubom
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This book has not earn good reviews, but I think it's a misunderstanding here. The main goal of this book is not to cover RoR in an intermediate nor advanced detailed level, but to give the user a fast overview of what RoR is all about. Remember that this book was released in 2005/2006 almost along with the RoR framework initial release. IMHO the authors accomplished their goals at that particular time.
A friend of mine recently (now it's 2008) ask me if I could indicate a good beginner's RoR book and I could not think of another with this simplicity. Unfortunately, probably because of the bad reviews, we don't have 2nd, 3rd, nths editions of this book :-(
Another thing why I like books like this when learning a new technology is because since it's new thing, I may decide that for any reasons I don't like the technology, I will not adopt it and in the end I didn't spent my time with a book full of details. In the beginning of my learning curve I need a good overall book so I can get the idea and that's what books like this one are made for.
So O'reilly, please issue the updated edition of this book covering the new things in the Rails Frmrk.
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