Re: Newbie Question - .RHTML files

Mike Riley
Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:16:39 -0000

werdnativ wrote:
> I haven''t seen the Wrox book myself, but I heard such a scathingly
bad
> review of it that I''d be hard pressed to recommend it. Hampton
Catlin,
> who obviously knows a thing or two about RoR, says it''s the worst
ruby/
> rails book:
>
> http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/programs/1/episodes/hampton_catlin
>
> --Andrew Vit
>
>
> On Jun 1, 8:05 pm, Mike Riley
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>

Andrew,

     I am surprised I had not seen or heard of that review since I am
subscribed to the RoR podcast.  I don''t think it is as bad a book as
was
reviewed.  I think it serves it''s purpose.  The book does cover Active
Record.  I also don''t think the book jumps around randomly.  For
it''s
purpose (a beginner level), I think it does that job. It makes sense
that if the author has done a 100 other books, that it was not written
by someone very knowledgeable about RoR.  I wouldn''t recommend it to
anyone if they have experience with RoR.  I started out with a
intermediate level book and I struggled with it.  Once I got the Wrox
book, it filled in a few (not a lot) of grey areas.  Just my two cents.

Mike