Re: Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce : Errata Help

Taylor Strait
2006-12-11T17:53:05Z

I hit a wall with the book as well.  Eventually I ditched the TDD and
just kept moving forward.  There is some good stuff to learn about
implementing search, ajax, etc.  This book converted me to migrations as
well.  The unit tests are good reading to understand what is happening
under the hood but I''ll be damned if I wrote them after they started
failing with wierd configuration errors.  I still read them though.

The chapter on forums is pretty good though I challenged myself to roll
my own forum and did it in less than 2 hours (and I''m a terrible
programmer!)  Eventually you come to realize that this book is mainly
about TDD and integrating plugins.   It does cover things that aren''t
widely explained like e-commerce and deployment.  Just don''t get bogged
down if a test fails - I didn''t!  Focus on the programming concepts.

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