Hi folks, I see there are two books recommended on the RoR website. As usual I would like some recommendation from users on this matter. I am currently a .NET developer and familiar with a few languages outside of .NET. Which one of these books would be suitable for me to get started with end-to-end development? Or can someone perhaps recommend a different book they found useful? Many thanks, Dany.
Hi Dany ~ First Read: http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html I recommend: http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr/index.html ~Ben On 4/25/06, Dany Wu <dany@wu.net.nz> wrote:> Hi folks, > > I see there are two books recommended on the RoR website. As usual I would like > some recommendation from users on this matter. > > I am currently a .NET developer and familiar with a few languages outside of > .NET. Which one of these books would be suitable for me to get started with > end-to-end development? Or can someone perhaps recommend a different book they > found useful? > > Many thanks, > Dany. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- Ben Reubenstein http://www.benr75.com
Dany Wu wrote:> Hi folks, > > I see there are two books recommended on the RoR website. As usual I > would like > some recommendation from users on this matter. > > I am currently a .NET developer and familiar with a few languages > outside of > .NET. Which one of these books would be suitable for me to get started > with > end-to-end development? Or can someone perhaps recommend a different > book they > found useful? > > Many thanks, > Dany.Dany, you might also want to take a look at David Black''s recently released Ruby for Rails (R4R) book along with the PragProg book. I would recommend them both. R4R maybe a little bit verbose for people who already know Rails, but for beginners I believe it is an excellent introduction to Rails along with very informative treatment of the Ruby language from specifically the Rails framework perspective. It will definitely help you with some of the Ruby magic that the Rails developers have used to create this wonderful framework. http://www.manning.com/black/ There are two chapters available free of charge. You should definitely look into it. HTH, Amr -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Quoting Amr <amrmalikNOSP@Mgmail.com>:> Dany Wu wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I see there are two books recommended on the RoR website. As usual I >> would like >> some recommendation from users on this matter. >> >> I am currently a .NET developer and familiar with a few languages >> outside of >> .NET. Which one of these books would be suitable for me to get started >> with >> end-to-end development? Or can someone perhaps recommend a different >> book they >> found useful? >> >> Many thanks, >> Dany. > > Dany, you might also want to take a look at David Black''s recently > released Ruby for Rails (R4R) book along with the PragProg book. I would > recommend them both. R4R maybe a little bit verbose for people who > already know Rails, but for beginners I believe it is an excellent > introduction to Rails along with very informative treatment of the Ruby > language from specifically the Rails framework perspective. It will > definitely help you with some of the Ruby magic that the Rails > developers have used to create this wonderful framework. > > http://www.manning.com/black/ > > There are two chapters available free of charge. You should definitely > look into it.Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I would probably quite like a fairly verbose book to start with. Ruby seems to be fairly loose syntactically (if there is such a word?) so a fairly firm guide is needed to start with :o) I also kept hearing about difficulties in finding Rails hosting out there. Have anyone else found this to be the case in commercial/free hosting options? other than running your own server that is.... Cheers, D.