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Simply Rails 2 | 
 enlarge | Author: Patrick Lenz
Publisher: SitePoint
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Pages: 450
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ISBN: 0980455200
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.117
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Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails 2.0, the web application framework that is inspiring developers around the world? The second edition of this practical, hands on book will: - show you how to install Ruby on Rails on Windows, Mac, or Linux
- walk you, step by step, through the development of a Web 2.0 social news application, just like digg.com
- show you how to test, debug, benchmark, and deploy your Rails application
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! The example application that the book builds - a user-generated news web site - is built upon with each following chapter, and concepts such as sessions, cookies and basic AJAX usage are gradually introduced. Different aspects of Rails, such as user authentication, session cookies, and automated testing are explored with each feature that is added to the application. The book finishes with chapters on debugging, benchmarking and deployment to a live web server. By the end of the book, you'll have built a fully-featured Web 2.0 application and deployed it to the Web. And all code is up-to-date for Rails 2.0, so you can begin coding immediately with the latest version of Rails. What Will You Learn?
This book will teach you how to: - Program with confidence in the Ruby language.
- Build and deploy a complete Rails web application.
- Exploit the new features available in Rails 2.
- Use Rails' Ajax features to create slick interfaces.
- Reap the benefits of a best-practice MVC architecture.
- Work with databases easily using ActiveRecord.
- Implement RESTful development patterns and clean URLs.
- Create a user authentication system.
- Use object oriented concepts like inheritance and polymorphism.
- Build a comprehensive automated testing suite for your application.
- Add plugins to easily enhance your application's functionality.
- Use migrations to manage your database schema without data loss.
- Achieve maximum code reuse with filters and helper functions.
- Debug your application using the ruby_debug client.
- Analyze your application's performance using the Rails logging infrastructure.
- Benchmark your application to determine performance bottlenecks.
- And a whole lot more
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 A great start, but not comprehensive August 12, 2008
This book is a great start, but you won't be able to write applications in Ruby on Rails by the end of it.
Let me refine that: you will be able to write one Ruby on Rails application by the end of it. The book walks you through creating a program that works like Digg. The book explains well everything that you need to do to write this one program, and introduces you to the basics of RoR architecture and how RoR works. I followed the instructions and understood everything that was going on.
However, once you have finished this book and written your Digg-like program, there is no guidance for where to go next. There isn't a chapter on "Further Resources" or "Where to go from here" or anything at all - you're just stuck with your little Digg-imitation. Not only that, but the book tends to introduce information in a rather haphazard order. From a pedagogy standpoint, the order in which information is presented makes a lot of sense. But it makes the book useless as a reference manual, or even as a model for how to do your own project.
It's fine as a first step and as an introduction to Ruby on Rails, especially since at the moment it's the only thing in print about Rails 2.x. But you will have to read other books before you can be a competent RoR programmer.
A little vague August 4, 2008
I am new to programming. I did a lot of it back 20 years ago, but am new to object oriented programming and just starting to learn programming again. I am about 1/2 way thru the book and have found myself now reading other books (Beginning Ruby by Peter Cooper is one) to try and fill in the blanks. The book takes the approach of developing a web application from the git go. I like this approach, but it glosses over WHY we are doing it. I found myself wondering why, more than saying "oh yeah, that makes sense". Maybe the fact that I am new to this wonderful programming world has a lot to do with it, but the book calls itself the "the ultimate programmers guide" so I guess I expected more from it. Overall it is an OK book, but the Agile book by Dave Thompson seems to do a better job of walking thru developing a web app.
 Simply The Best July 25, 2008
Although I have been writing programs for quite a while I am completely new to Ruby and Dynamic languages in general. I have been checking out a few books on Ruby and Rails. Rails is what I am really after. But most books are either 'Ruby only' with no rails and 'Rails only' and assume you already know Ruby. I tried 'Ruby for Rails' but it is out of date and doesn't cover rails 2. So it looked like I had to bite the bullet and finish a ruby book before picking up a good rails book. I was making my way through the famous 'Dave Thomas' classic. It is a great book but I was wondering if there is a faster way to get to rails. And finally I found it!
This book is a simple,easy and fast route to rails. I am not new to the basics of object oriented programming covered at beginning of the book but I think this book contains one of the best introductions to the subject for beginners.
If you want to get into rails 2 and if you are quite new to ruby as well then this is the fastest and easiest route I have seen. And it looks like you don't need to have lots of coding experience to use this book.
 Disappointing July 25, 2008
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I had high hopes for this book, being that it was strongly recommended here on Amazon. However, I have quite a few issues with it.
First, no one should be teaching anyone how to develop a web application if they're not willing to explain how to hash sensitive data like user passwords. There's really no reason not to. This is basic, basic security and it's simple to implement in rails, yet the authors choose to go the clear text route. (Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition teaches you how to do this, and at 700 pages, is a much more useful resource for the beginning Rails developer the version that covers 2.0 is available as a beta-ebook online).
Also, I don't think the authors were able to bridge the gap between their assumed level of knowledge and the true Ruby on Rails beginner; explanations of OOP were slim and basics like symbols and MVC aren't clear enough (ie, jargon words like "business logic" might be understood by some readers, but not all beginners). Again, I had to go to other books to get clear examples and explanations written entirely in lay terms.
If you want a complete resource that will let you teach yourself Ruby on Rails, this isn't it.
Great introduction to Rails July 13, 2008
I was very happy to finally find this book after much confusion and disappointment weeding through the huge number of Rails tutorials, postings, and books including the beta Agile Web Development With Rails 2.0. By the way, if you are new to Ruby, and I assume to Rails, get this book. The people behind the so-called authoritative AWD book are still scrambling to update their book to 2.0, and if you are like me new to Rails and Web development frameworks in general, you will have a heck of time trying to make sense of the various components that make up Rails, the deprecated syntax. Unlike 'Agile Development with Rails' book, 'Simply Rails 2' starts you off with an introduction to Ruby and the theory behind the framework in concise and clear language. I recommend this book highly.
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