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Beginning Ruby on Rails (Wrox Beginning Guides)
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Beginning Ruby on Rails (Wrox Beginning Guides) |
Author: Steve, Ph.D. Holzner
Published: 2006-11-29 |
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 Finally, a book that actually *teaches*
I am tired of books that present a giant, extended tutorial, revealing bits and pieces while continually dragging you deeper into a dense forest of detail, leaving you, machete in hand, to try and find your way to enlightenment.
Unlike those, this book actually teaches -- it provides small examples that clearly illustrate isolated concepts, and builds from there. I gather that Dr. Holzner has written > 100 programming books, and this work clearly shows why he is in such demand.
Great Rails Beginners Guide!!
'Beginning Ruby on Rails' by extreme (lots of publications) author Steven Holzner is an absolute must-buy for anyone looking to start learning Ruby on Rails!!
With over 350+ pages of content spread over 11 chapters, subject matter is broken up logically:
01. Ruby Overview
02. Conditionals, Loops, Methods, Blocks
03. Classes and Objects
04. Rails Overview
05. Building Simple Rails Applications
06. Connecting to Databases
07. Working with Databases
08. Validating and Testing
09. Action Controller
10. Views
11. Ajax and Rails
This books is well written, sticks to the basics of teaching you how to become juuust a tad dangerous with Rails and and not going much further.
Some reviewers have noted that this book is light but I 100% disagree. For the subject matter of learning this technology and getting up to speed this does exactly what is advertised. Wrox puts out lots of good books and this one easily gets my stamp of approval!
***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
 For absolute beginners or those without a lot of time
Of the many RoR books I've read, this is probably the easiest to follow. If you don't have a lot of time and want to satisfy your RoR curiosity, this is your book. The author doesn't go into great details which can be a great thing if you're a new programmer and just want to get your feet wet. For experienced programmers, I'd go with "Agile Dev. with Rails" for a more thorough reading.
Not for professional developers
The only reason I'm giving this book 3 stars is the good introduction to Ruby at the beginning. Its coverage of Rails is simplistic. The author asks you to re-run the command to create a new rails project for each example he takes you through. After awhile, this becomes very annoying. How often is a web developer creating new projects? It is better to go through one or two extended examples.
If you do some programming for a living, this book is not for you. Get the real thing:
Agile Web Development with Rails
 Good place to start working with Rails
I am not a fan of Wrox books. It has nothing to do with their content, but the layout of their books is irritating to me, so I find their books hard to read. Having said that, I think this is one of the best books written for the beginning Rails user.
Most books (and online tutorials) try to teach Rails by going through a big monolithic project one step at a time. Those books have good information too, and are great if the books project happens to be what you want to create; however, this one actually tells you how Rails works, which I find infinitely easier to grasp and use.
I was not a beginner with Ruby or Rails prior to reading this book. I had already read several others and used Rails on a couple of small projects. Nonetheless, I found that this book filled in some of the holes in my mind regarding Rails, so I would recommend it to both the beginner and intermediate user.
The only thing I found lacking in this book is a thorough explanation of migrations and how to use them. Migrations are easier to understand for beginners, I think, than manually creating your data tables; as is done in this book. The Apress book on creating E-Commerce sites with Rails contains a good explanation of migrations, I think.
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