Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.117 EAN: 9780596101329 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596101325 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 182 Publication Date: August 22, 2006 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 42930 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionRuby on Rails is the super-productive new way to develop full-featured web applications. With Ruby on Rails, powerful web applications that once took weeks or months to develop can now be produced in a matter of days. If it sounds too good to be true, it isn't.
If you're like a lot of web developers, you've probably considered kicking the tires on Rails - the framework of choice for the new generation of Web 2.0 developers. Ruby on Rails: Up and Running takes you out for a test drive and shows you just how fast Ruby on Rails can go.
This compact guide teaches you the basics of installing and using both the Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework for the quick development of web applications. Ruby on Rails: Up and Running covers just about everything you need - from making a simple database-backed application to adding elaborate Ajaxian features and all the juicy bits in between. While Rails is praised for its simplicity and speed of development, there are still a few steps to master on the way. More advanced material helps you map data to an imperfect table, traverse complex relationships, and build custom finders. A section on working with Ajax and REST shows you how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic user-centric web pages. The book also explains the essentials of logging to find performance problems and delves into other performance-optimizing techniques.
As new web development frameworks go, Ruby on Rails is the talk of the town. And Ruby on Rails: Up and Running can make sure you're in on the discussion.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Poor Quality, Low Quantity, High Price
For a newbie following the examples closely is generally a must; however, there are some "trivial" steps left out of the book ... that turn out to be necessary to get the sample projects moving. Given the brevity of the content, the inaccuracies of the samples, and the high price ... my suggestion is to look elsewhere.
Rating: - A bit dated but gets right to the point with a useful example.
This book made use of an earlier version of Rails, but if you aren't totally clueless and have the wisdom to read warnings from IDEs, generation scripts and the server, you can actually get the code running.
BTW, 99% of the code works without warnings/errors at all. FWIW, I switched to Mac OS X to do this (from Dell using XP), so I was fighting a lot of other differences besides having a more modern Rails, and I actually got through it all. Also, I am an old Java/C++ programmer... ... Read More
Rating: - Too Pricey For Too Many Errors
I definitely will avoid both authors in the future.
I can't fathom how O'reilly "approved" these authors to write such book with so many ridiculous errors from typos to just blatant errors.
I supposed O'reilly is also declining in terms of quality (See my "Learning Ruby", "Learning JavaScript" review as well).
Bad:
1) Too many errors
2) Outdated (Rails is 2.0, the book, rushed, is using 1.1)
3) Too pricey
4) Bruce A. Tate always jumped ... Read More
Rating: - Great book, BUT...
This is a great book, and I recommend you consider it, but for a couple reasons you might not want to buy it.
First, it's a great *short* overview of the process of developing Ruby on Rails apps. I found that I understand all the things I've read elsewhere but it's sometimes hard to put it all together and remember all the steps in a logical sequence. Because of the magic of Rails (and its use of metaprogramming and code generation and other groovyamazing stuff, you have to ... Read More
Rating: - Not much value
I read through this in an afternoon in a bookstore. I'm wondering... Why would you get this book when for several dollars more you could get the bible of Ruby on Rails: "Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers)?"
Where this book is overly terse and covers the bare minimum of subjects, AWDwR has lots of details and examples. Get that book and the companion Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition and you're all set for some fun evenings.
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- Poor Quality, Low Quantity, High Price
- A bit dated but gets right to the point with a useful example.
