books about: rails     books:     Rails      Simply Rails 2 Patrick Lenz SitePoint, 2008 Best step by step book for Rails 2 newbies I am new to Ruby and of course Rails. I found Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional) book very useful to learn Ruby. Unfortunately I had difficulty finding a simple and clear book on Rails, till I found Simply Rails 2. Rails ...             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.             Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional) Peter Cooper Apress, 2007 An excellent introduction to Ruby I had heard quite a bit about Ruby, so I thought I would see what it had to offer. I went looking for an introductory book and found this one. I was hooked before the end of the first chapter. The author has an engaging writing style, and has done a great job of ...             Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition David Hansson, Leon Breedt, ... Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006 I recommend it I love the framework, the Agile philosophy and I love how the book is structured: straightforward, practical, easy to follow, programmer-oriented. I truly recommend it for anyone willing to begin in the Rails universe.             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 ...             RESTful Web Services Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 The necessary wake-up call for developers who ignore HTTP RESTful web services is one of the (very) few books I read from start to finish without browsing the ToC for "more interesting" chapters than the one I was currently reading. From a writers perspective, this book is executed flawlessly: great organization of content, ...             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 Everything you need to know about Germany. We took 3 travel guides with us on our tour of Germany and this is the one we used the most. It has everything that you need to know. What trains to use, what to see, how to get there, where to eat, where to stay. As a first time traveler to Germany we found the info ...             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 Pragmatic Prototype Indeed Reading this little piece of work is a great way to very quickly learn the nuts and bolts of Prototype and Scriptaculous. This book is long on code and short on deep explanation and banter (for better or worse; hence "pragmatic programmer"). My background: I'm not ...             Advanced Rails Recipes: 84 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps (Pragmatic Programmers) Mike Clark Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008 Another Good One It's simple, really: If you're programming with Rails you should buy this book. Let's face it, one recipe that shows you how to do something is all that it takes for this book to pay for itself. Some of the recipes are meant to be looked at on an as-needed basis, ...             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 ...             RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) Michael Hartl, Aurelius Prochazka Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007 Greatg starter book for RoR This book is teriffic. I started my journey into RoR by buying the two canonical starter books, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide and Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition. These are solid, rich repositories of information, but I was still ...             Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) Chad Fowler Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006 70+ Rails Tidbits In One Book!! 'Rails Recipes' by Chad Fowler is a wonderful book filled with 70 recipes which will automatically improve your Rails skillset and no doubt get you programming faster and better than ever before!! Pragmatic is never going to win any awards for layout of their books, ...             Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Good Stuff Yes you can read online material but it's just not as good. The book really has some great content.             Streetwise Transitwise Map - Laminated New York Metropolitan Commuter Rail Map - Folding pocket size travel ... Michael Brown Streetwise Maps, 2008 Helpful Purchased for my daughter prior to her attending college in NYC. She says this has been very helpful in navigating her way around          products you might be interested in search for books addison-wesley, applications, development, metropolitan, professional, step-by-step      geepe.com    web we recommend I recommend it randomly chosen book: Rick Steves' Italy 2008 (Rick Steves)