Rails - May 2006 - Ruby on Rails: Up and Running: Rough Cuts Version

Anyone read the rough cuts of this book?  I''m interested in checking it
out because Bruce Tate''s work is always great.  How does it compare to
the agile books (2nd edition) in terms of timeliness, difficulty, etc.

 

Thanks!

Nathan  

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Nathan P. Verni wrote:
> Anyone read the rough cuts of this book?  I''m interested in
checking it
> out because Bruce Tate''s work is always great.  How does it
compare to
> the agile books (2nd edition) in terms of timeliness, difficulty, etc.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Nathan
The Photo Share example application covers a lot more ground and depth 
than the AWDwR2 depot application, and yet I don''t feel overwhelmed. 
That may be because I have gone through the depot application already. 
HABTM is starting to make sense to me now, and a hierarchical 
self-referencing model (categories within categories) seems learnable 
after all! I like that it doesn''t just tell you to add, for example, 
has_many :somethings, to a class, but it also shows in a table what 
methods and attributes such an addition makes available. The book has 
plenty of typos that can send the unwary to hours of wasted effort. 
Thinking of buying one but not the other book? Looking back (easy to do 
because I haven''t gone any distance at all), the learning steps that 
would have been efficient for me: First, the instant gratification 
tutorial in AWDwR2, then Curt Hibbs 2-part O''Reilly tutorial, then the 
AWDwR2 depot application, then RoRUpAndRunning Photo Share tutorial (I 
have not gone through David Black''s tutorial). When you are learning 
something as complex as Rails, at night and on weekends, the right 
material at the right time matters most.

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