Pragmatic Programmers: Agile Web Development with Rails (Edition 3) (Paperback)

from billlund

One of the first, and so far the best book on developing web applications on Rails using Ruby.

from pratalife

A good book to have read at some point for historical reasons - DHH's involvement kind of makes that an imperative. However, it's dated (actually pre 1.0) so many of the specifics are no longer correct or recommended, and it misses big chunks of what is now conventional rails (RESTful routes for ...

from pratalife

A good book to have read at some point for historical reasons - DHH's involvement kind of makes that an imperative. However, it's dated (actually pre 1.0) so many of the specifics are no longer correct or recommended, and it misses big chunks of what is now conventional rails (RESTful routes for ...

from dohouk

I am not a fan of Dave Thomas. I prefer less chatty books with more detailed discussion. That being said, this is a great book to dive into Rails apps. and Dave's style is really very appropriate for the kind of fast, fun, satisfying experience that Rails development can offer. Man, the language ...

from djmook

A great introduction to ruby on rails. However a lot has changed since this book was written only a year ago, and there is about to be a second edition released December 2006. You can get "beta" releases of the new edition in pdf from the publishers website.