I've read the 1st edition and now the 3rd edition. Still seems like the best book for a rails newbie. My nitpick: this book doesn't have a concise roadmap to what's new in Rails 3.

Essential reading for savvy designers and developers cleverly boarding the ruby on rails train. All designers should learn to code. Ruby is a beautiful language and rails makes a practical partner to bring your next napkin sketch into reality. This book was written in part by DHH, the creator of rails among other things. That rendered the book a trusted source for conventions and best practices.

It's pretty good though I'm only a couple of chapters in.

The intro says that you can keep up if you don't know ruby and with relatively little CSS/HTML but I don't think so. I don't know much about CSS or HTML but I know ruby and have written two applications using Sinatra and MVC. Everything seems easy, I am trying to cope with the abstraction level but I wouldn't say that this book is for beginners. On the other hand I like its approach, goes directly to web development without loosing too much over various subjects, rails is a framework after all, nothing more.

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I did not finish this... It is a great reading for the first chapters but the technology advancements on this topic are too fast for my reading pace!
Waiting to get a copy for the Rails 3 version!

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Great following through Part 1 and 2 to get a feel for the structure of Rails

Part 3 is great for explaining the most important parts of Rails

Excellent tutorials on Rails, and a good reference as well.

This book introduced me to the Ruby on Rails on 2010. Many books later, this one still proves to be best introductory to the field.

Today I have to return this to the library. Maybe another time, after I finish my side trip into Python. No longer currently reading.

Great book for beginners. this book cover a lot of tips that help you with rails web development