Jump Start Rails

by Andy Hawthorne

Jump Start Rails provides you with a fun and yet practical introduction to Rails, an incredibly popular framework that makes it possible to quickly develop incredibly powerful web applications with Ruby. This short book covers Rails 4, the latest version of the framework, and while it's not intended to be a completely comprehensive Rails guide or an in-depth Ruby tutorial, it will quickly get you up to speed with Rails and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.

The book is built around a real-life example project: a personal portfolio site. It's a fun and easily understandable project that is used to demonstrate the concepts outlined in the book in a practical way.

This is a clear, approachable and very easy-to-follow book that will get you to to speed with Rails in no time.

Genres: Programming, Web, Technology

167 pages, Paperback

First published July 28, 2013

Reviews

[Kai Weber · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book provides what the title promises: A jump start. It might not be a healthy way to start, and not one that keeps you engine healthy, but it gives you a brief overview over the layout and philosophy of the Rails framework. (Which is quite different to everything I personally have seen before, because I never worked with code generators other than a bit of time spent with a UI design helper.) The book takes you from local installation all the way to deploying a finished website on a web server. Though the book is brief, it does have the time for a little bit of repetition, in a good, didactically sound way. Nevertheless, the learning curve is steep, and the book does not bother to explain any of the syntax of the Ruby programming language, so you need to get your Ruby training elsewhere. Adding a chapter or two about Ruby would have made the book rounder and more welcoming to newcomers.

[Howard Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just finished to read this book. Really clear and simple explanation. it's worth to read for who want to start RoR development.