The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) | Obie Fernandez

The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) | Obie Fernandez | Way to go, Obie!

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	The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) Obie Fernandez Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007 - 912 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This and "The Ruby Way": Always-On-Your-Desk Books

I think the classic "Agile Web Development with Rails" is a better book for learning about Rails. But while this book comes in second in that category (which ain't bad), I think as a reference it comes in first.
One thing I especially like about this book is that he explains *why* certain things are the way they are. Quite a few times I found myself thinking, "So *that's* why it's like that" or "So *that's* why they did it that way". Good stuff.

Way to go, Obie!

I knew this was gonna be good when, in the Introduction, Obie writes, 'I don't like online APIs - I want a real book I can keep next to my keyboard that's dog-eared, bookmarked with sticky tabs, highlighted, and scribbled on.' Well, I read it from cover to cover like a Sherlock Holmes novel, and there it sits next to my keyboard, dog-eared, bookmarked with sticky tabs, highlighted, and scribbled on!

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Most comprehensive Rails book to date

This book is remarkably thorough and in-depth. It includes very practical knowledge about almost all aspects of Rails development and deployment. While beginners should choose a different book for an introduction to Rails, developers of all levels could benefit from keeping this book close at hand as they work.

Best Rails Book Yet. Highly recommended.

Outstanding. Far and away the best Rails reference book published to date.

Very readable and well organized. The book provides solid coverage of the Rails framework as a whole and does a great job explaining some essential topics that are slighted in other Rails books (notably routing, testing, Rails plug-ins, and the guts of Active Record).

This is a reference book and not a tutorial. The examples, while good, are snippets and do not include a complete working application. For an excellent tutorial on Rails development, I suggest RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series).

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Big and Beefy

I'm halfway through this book (it's HUGE) and I love it. A great contribution and homage to Hal Fulton's THE RUBY WAY. BTW, this pair of books plus the book RailsSpace, which details the building of an example simple application, make a great set. Thanks so much for spending so much time on this contribution, Obie Fernandez, et al.!

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