books about: rail

books about: rail

books:

Rail

Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

Peter Cooper

Apress, 2007

The best, and most comprehensive, introduction to Ruby I've seen
Every serious Ruby programmer has a copy of the venerable 'Pickaxe' (the definitive Ruby reference manual) at their disposal, but if you're just getting you're feet wet with Ruby and serious about learning it from the ground up, then Beginning Ruby is just what you ...

Advanced Rails Recipes

Mike Clark

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Get it, it will pay for itself immediately.
I went through this book cover-to-cover every few pages saying, 'Wow, I could have used/need that now!' If you're a RoR developer, you really should have this book on your shelf. I marked maybe 75% of the recipes as something I could use--worth it's weight in gold!

Daytrips Germany: 60 One Day Adventures by Rail or by Car in Bavaria, the Rhineland, the North and the East ...

Earl Steinbicker

Hastings House / Daytrips Publishers, 2002

Fantastic memories
We, my wife and I, found the daytrips very informative.How else would we have found the famous "Rauchbier" in Bamberg? It alone was worth the price of the book. We went to several of the trips explained in the book during our three week stay in Bavaria. I will ...

Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition

David Hansson, Leon Breedt, ...

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006

Great Book - But Wait to Buy
This is THE book for Rails. Top notch...only WAIT to buy it. As others have said, there is a new edition coming out soon that covers Rails 2.0. Of course...if you can't wait, go to the publisher's web page. They are selling copies of this edition for 50% off, while ...

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition

Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, ...

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2004

Good Stuff
It's good enough that I refer to it instead of Google for the more mundane bits.

Simply Rails 2

Patrick Lenz

SitePoint, 2008

Easiest to Read Tech Book
I have read the forward and the first three chapters of this book. I am not all the way through it yet. However, thus far it has been the most enjoyable technical book I have yet read. I have learned several languages from books, and this book teaches you how to ...

RESTful Web Services

Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Lots of information... Very great book
It took a while before I decided to read this book... Let me say... There's a lot of information that helped me understand various concepts... It's not just about REST... it's also about all the different architectures that make the Web we currently know and use. The ...

Design Patterns in Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

Russ Olsen

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007

Engaging and Educational
I am a Java developer whose Ruby experience is limited to firing up the interactive Ruby shell for a Hello World, or reading the first chapters of Programming Ruby before drifting away and vowing to learn Ruby "when I have more time". I work with the author, and ...

The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

Obie Fernandez

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007

The Essential Guide
This is *the* rails book to get. Even if you're an experienced Rails developer, you'll find loads of great information and advice. The real-world examples are really helpful. Includes an excellent tour through the framework itself. This is one of the few Rails books ...

Off the Rails: Aboard the Crazy Train in the Blizzard of Ozz

Rudy Sarzo

TOO SMART! Publishing, 2008

Sarzo's "Tribute" To Rhoads Enjoyable
Rudy Sarzo's "Off The Rails" is an enjoyable look at the short period of his association with Quiet Riot, Randy Rhoads and two tours with Ozzy until Rhoads' subsequent death. This book is not a career overview but a brief glimpse into the beginnings of Quiet Riot and ...

Ridin' the Rails

Kimberly Kaye Terry

Parker Publishing, 2007

Ohhh! This book made my summer reading great!
I absolutely loved this book. I couldn't put it down! This was the first book that I have ready by Kimberly Kaye Terry and it will not be the last. I am already online looking for other books by her. She is a great writer. I loved the story between Naomi and ...

Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide (Facets of Ruby)

Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Bruce Tate, ...

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

authoritative guide to rails basic tools
This is a superb book, the best compact writeups i've seen on setting up Apache load balancing and proxies, nginx, mongrel, SVN server and repos, DNS, MySql caching, capistrano, rake, profiling apps (and there's a lot of blogs, books on these subjects. Entire mailing ...

Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This! (Pragmatic Programmers)

Christophe Porteneuve

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

Great Prototype Reference
'Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This!' is a wonderful reference for learning how to use Prototype and writing better and more powerful Javascript code. Pragmatic has a history of publishing good books that are full of stuff and not ...

Rails Pocket Reference

Eric Berry

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

Great book! Fills in the gaps!
Like many who dabble with Rails, I own many books on the subject. I like this format in general, and this book does not disappoint. Rails is a loose set of tools/scripts, and this brings together the "how", with just the right amount of "why". I give the content 5 ...

TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac (Pragmatic Programmers)

James Gray

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

Get a Mac, get TextMate, get this book.
"TextMate is actually a thin shell over a personalized team of robot ninjas ready to do your bidding." The funny thing is, to people who have never used TextMate for more than a few minutes the above phrase sounds like an exaggeration. It's not. (As long as you ...