Rails recipes

Mentions per year

What Hacker News says

• carpal · Jan 21, 2008 · Recommends

  …I've never gotten much utility out of Rails books. I've generally gotten much more use out of the API docs and blogs. That said, the Agile Web Development with Rails book is pretty much standard, and Rails Recipes is good for code examples. However, if you're doing something in Rails Recipes, there's probably a plugin for it by now. 2) Because it is very easy to implement an idea in a day and see if it sticks.…

  on “2 Questions about RoR” ↗
• jprobitaille · May 31, 2007 · Recommends

  …AWDwR. It provides much insight into the Ruby behind the Rails. 3 (tie). Either Orsini's Rails Cookbook (O'Reilly) (the testing chapter is particularly useful if it's new to you) 3 (tie). Fowler's Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers). Both books are very good. If anything, 'Recipes' gets you movign faster, but you'll probably learn more from the Cookbook. opt. Ajax on Rails by Raymond (O'Reilly). An in Depth…

  on “How did you learn RoR?” ↗
• SteveC · May 31, 2007 · Recommends

  I used three books in this order Agile web development with Rails (for learning rails initially) Beginning Ruby by Peter Cooper (for learning ruby) Rails Recipes (for doing useful stuff) While reading these I also worked on converting an existing web app into rails.

  on “How did you learn RoR?” ↗
• melvinram · Jun 5, 2012 · Recommends

  Rails Recipes and Advanced Rails Recipes http://pragprog.com/book/rr2/rails-recipes http://pragprog.com/book/fr_arr/advanced-rails-recipes The Advanced Rails Recipes is out of date but the concepts still apply.

  on “Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition” ↗
• Xichekolas · Jan 27, 2009 · Mentions

  …shipping ($4.95 for priority mail, a bit more if you want a confirmation number): Agile Web Development With Rails: David Heinemeier Hansson (Paperback, 2005) ISBN-10: 097669400X | ISBN-13: 9780976694007 Rails Recipes: Chad Fowler (Paperback, 2006) ISBN-10: 0977616606 | ISBN-13: 9780977616602 I'm the original owner of both and they are in perfect shape.

  on “Ask YC: Why not give away your old stuff here?” ↗
• ngauthier · Dec 16, 2011 · Mentions

  We included a few intro chapters so that people would be able to fully comprehend our examples. Think of them as pre-requisites. Keep in mind Rails Recipes was written by the incomparable Chad Fowler and probably had five figures worth of editing over a much longer period of time. Our focus from the start was to provide incredibly helpful and relevant code.…

  on “Recipes with Backbone.js ” ↗
• bbased · Dec 16, 2011 · Critical

  $2 dollars more expensive, 200+ pages and 50+ recipes lighter than my last Pragmatic Programmer ebook purchase of this type; Rails Recipes. Also, a few of those recipes I wouldn't consider "after the tutorial" material judging off chapter title alone. Like namespacing and view templates which are covered and covered again across material…

  on “Recipes with Backbone.js ” ↗
• rpwilcox · Oct 28, 2011 · Mentions

  …block a number of times (C++, Python, Cocoa, Ruby) and wants to start a new node.js project off right? (Book recommendations are also great. I looked at the current crop of books, but I almost want a Rails Recipes or Python Cookbook style of book for node, but don't see one)

  on “Ask N: node.js best practices?” ↗
• swombat · Dec 17, 2008 · Mentions

  Off the top of my head I haven't heard of such a book. It's too specialised to have enough of a market, I imagine. Advanced Rails Recipes did touch on some techniques that would be useful in that context, though.

  on “Ask HN: Tutorials/Info on creating Hosted Web Apps?” ↗