Well enough written but some programs don't work. Rails seems to go out of date quick.

Very good book for learning the ins and outs of Ruby on Rails. Great detail.

nice book for beginner

After introducing myself to Ruby, I read this book to become more familiar with the Rails framework. I was very pleased with how this book was laid out. The first section has you dig right into creating a basic storefront by guiding you through the basics of using the Rails framework. This first section teaches you everything you need to create a basic site of your own. The latter sections of the book go into depth regarding each concept you learned in the initial sections as well as other advanced concepts. The progression of the book was very natural and did not try to throw an advanced concept at you without showing you simple examples first on which you could build your knowledge. I'd recommend this book to anyone wanting to see what the fuss is all about regarding Ruby on Rails.

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In general, this book does a fairly good job of helping you create a rails-based application. Part 3 includes some great in-depth information on the topics that are briefly discussed in Part 2.

I only have one real gripe about this book. It packs in lots of topics (e.g. db theory, AJAX, unit testing, security, deployment), but it doesn't really tell you much about them. Therefore, if you have a problem, then good luck figuring it out using the content in the book.

A good example is the final chapter which covers deployment. The chapter devotes only a few small paragraphs to configuring Apache for passenger. To me, this section was completely useless unless you were already an expert with Apache configuration. I ended that chapter with a broken Apache server and no resources (from the book) to begin fixing it.

Another problem that I had with that chapter is that it really didn't follow the pattern that the chapters in Part 2 used. In those chapters, the authors would should you how to do something relatively small, show you how to test it, and then provide some troubleshooting information if the task was particularly complex. The deployment chapter gave you a *very brief and generalized* tutorial in each section, and then just assumed that everything went perfectly. It didn't show you how to test anything, and it didn't help you troubleshoot any possible problems.

Don't get me wrong. I know that no book will provide all of the information that I would ever need about a subject, and thank goodness for the internet in these situations. I was just hoping that all of the chapters in a book that I actually bought would provide better information than some person's blog.

So in general, I guess I would have to say that this was a very good book with some bad chapters that were tacked-on at the end.

A great introduction to Ruby on Rails. It has a practical approach as it gets you through building a simple web store application.
Good to know some Ruby before jumping into Rails. However, this book does include a 10 or so page crash course on Ruby.

Incredible book, perfect companion for new or experienced developers willing to dive into Rails.

Even though the book is updated for Rails 5 it stills mentions apache / passenger in the deployment section without any mention on how to make ActionCable work with that stack.

You should buy the new version at this point.

This is a high level overview of the framework. While it gives you a nice picture of what is possible with Rails, some of the practices are very questionable like data migrations or all-in-one React components. Unfortunately, I've seen so many of this code in production it is not very easy to maintain this foundation.

Very useful for learning about Rails, but this stuff changes fast. Get the latest version.

Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers) by Dave Thomas (2006)