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Learning Rails by Laurent, Simon St., Dumbill [O'Reilly Media, 2008] (Paperback) [Paperback]
Learning Rails by Laurent, Simon St., Dumbill [O'Reilly Media, 2008] (Paperba...
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First published November 1, 2008
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Simon St. Laurent
24 books4 followersSimon St. Laurent is a Content Manager at LinkedIn Learning, focusing primarily on front-end web projects. He has been co-chair of the Fluent conference and of OSCON. He's authored or co-authored books including Introducing Elixir, Introducing Erlang, Learning Rails 3, XML Pocket Reference, 3rd, XML: A Primer, and Cookies.
You can find more of his writing on technology, Quakerism, and the Town of Dryden at simonstl.com.
You can find more of his writing on technology, Quakerism, and the Town of Dryden at simonstl.com.
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April 19, 2010
Learning Rails was a solid introductory guide to Rails. I feel like I now have a good foundation to build on, but some of that may be due to my previous experience with other programming languages.
The book, for the most part, sticks to the MVC and DRY philosophies of Rails. Unfortunately, there were some small sections where the authors broke from this without an explanation. For example, one code example puts DB Select code in the View, rather than the Controller.
However, my biggest gripe with the book was the high number of errata. If you read this book, make sure you have the errata page open on O'Reilly's website. Many of the errors could have been avoided had the authors spent a week to read through the entire book again.
All in all, the book was very helpful, but the errata turned a 4 or 5 star book into 3 stars for me.
The book, for the most part, sticks to the MVC and DRY philosophies of Rails. Unfortunately, there were some small sections where the authors broke from this without an explanation. For example, one code example puts DB Select code in the View, rather than the Controller.
However, my biggest gripe with the book was the high number of errata. If you read this book, make sure you have the errata page open on O'Reilly's website. Many of the errors could have been avoided had the authors spent a week to read through the entire book again.
All in all, the book was very helpful, but the errata turned a 4 or 5 star book into 3 stars for me.
August 18, 2009
Far more in depth than the last one I read. Hard to follow. Seemed to be missing a sort of overall structure. It just went through a bunch of problems you'd face and how to solve them. Good follow up but I was right about the Head First Book being a much better introduction.
Skipped the ajax stuff at the end. I need to get an AJAX book. Seems like something I'm going to need to know.
Skipped the ajax stuff at the end. I need to get an AJAX book. Seems like something I'm going to need to know.
July 9, 2010
I bought this book because Agile Web Development wasn't at the bookstore, please don't make the same mistake.
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