The art of Rails
by Edward Benson · first published 2008
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Ruby on Rails offers the ability to rapidly design and write high-quality code with elegance and maintainability. Written by an experienced web application developer, this book explains how to take good Rails code and turn it into beautiful Rails code: simple, effective, reusable, evolvable code. He discusses the very latest in design patterns, programming abstractions, and development methodologies that have emerged for the modern web. With each design technique, you?ll discover how to make your own additions to Rails and craft a development environment tailored to your specific needs.
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…you should be fine with: * Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-...) Other books you may want to consider afterward are: * The Art of Rails (http://www.amazon.com/Art-Rails-Programmer/dp/0470189487) * Enterprise Rails (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515201/).
on “Can you recommend some good RoR books?” ↗if you are new to programming you should read these two books (not free i'm afraid): Design Patterns in Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby… by Russ Olsen The Art of Rails (Programmer to Programmer) by Edward Benson
on “Rails references” ↗…ecosystem in real-time. You'll learn here what modules to use/digg in, how to extend your sources of information. Personally I would recommend two books: Design Patterns in Ruby by Russ Olsen and The Art of Rails by Edward Benson
on “Ask HN: Learning RoR, Books & Tutorials?” ↗I tend to get too distracted to give many books the cover-to-cover treatment. Some great ones that made the cut were: 1) Metaprogramming Ruby. 2) The Art of Rails. 3) Ruby Design Patterns 4) Services-Oriented Architecture in Ruby These stick out for me. Even if the last one in the list felt a little "rushed to production", it still covered important topics…
on “Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to end?” ↗…with Rails (Pragmatic) and The Rails Way (Addison) are two fantastic books, and both are on the shelf next to my desk right now, but they both concentrate on exhaustive coverage of the Rails API. The Art of Rails is meant to be the kind of book you buy after owning one of those. It takes someone familiar with the /syntax/ of coding Rails and attempts to provide guidance and insight into the /style/ and design…
on “Shameless self promotion” ↗…entrepreneurial itch that so many share here. I've finally got something to stand up on a stump about, so I thought I'd write a post for once: I just spent the past year working on a book called The Art of Rails [1] about web application design, coding style, and life cycle in Ruby on Rails. It is aimed for the intermediate Rails developer, but it is really useful for anyone interested in learning about modern…
on “Shameless self promotion” ↗Hey, I wrote the Art of Rails. You just made my day putting it on your list. Thanks a lot, ludicast.
on “Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to end?” ↗