Rails: Novice to Ninja: Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Website

by Glenn Goodrich

Novice to Ninja is an easy-to-follow, practical and fun guide to Ruby on Rails for beginners. It covers all you need to get up and running, from installing Ruby, Rails and SQLite to building and deploying a fully-featured web application. The third edition of this book has been fully updated to cover Rails 5, the latest version of the framework.


Unlike other Rails books, this book doesn't assume that you are an experienced web developer, or that you've used Ruby before. An entire chapter is devoted to learning Ruby in a fun way, using the interactive Ruby console, so you can follow along at home. You'll be an accomplished Ruby programmer in no time! You'll then start using Rails to build a practical, working a Reddit-like social news application. As you'll build the app, you'll gain valuable experience of using Rails features such as user authentication, session cookies, and automated testing. The book finishes with chapters on debugging, benchmarking and deployment to a live web server.

Genres: Programming

542 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 21, 2016

Reviews

[Arthur · Rating 4 out of 5]

Does cover the basics for a beginner to start effectively working in Rails. No clutter, just the bare minimum of Rails and Ruby to deploy a simple app. But to become sellable this is not enough.