[Novalug] Ruby on Rails?

Garrett Nievin gnievin@adelphia.net
Sat Jan 13 13:09:07 EST 2007



On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Alan McConnell wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:25:44AM -0500, Garrett Nievin wrote:
>> I'm starting into Ruby and Rails, and much of the reading on it is just
>> as fluffy.
>>
>> O'Reilly's "Ruby on Rails: Up and Running" book is even thinner that it
>> appears.  I'm working through it, and can't recommend it.
> 	The version of Ruby that I have, from Debian IIRC(it's been a while)
> 	has a complete book, htmled, as the documentation.  It is called
> 	"Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide".  IMHO this
> 	book is _excellent_.  Take a look at:
> 		www.rubycentral.com/book/
>
> (I don't want to get into a war here<g>; I posted recently on the
> great Cooper book on bash scripting, and I own two Perl books as
> well as of course K&R and Harbison&Steele; I even own Tcl/Tk for
> Dummies!<blush>)
>
> Best wishes
>
> Alan


Alan,

I just got that book (the "Pickaxe" book, right?) and after a skimover 
and reading the first chapter or two, I agree that it's superb.  I think 
I got the second edition and the first is online as PDF.

Cheers,
Garrett



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