I'm delighted to announce that Chad Fowler's new book, Rails Recipes, is now available
as a Beta Book.
This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.
If you're used to other recipe-style books, you'll be surprised by the depth Chad goes to in this book. These aren't the usual "How to substitute a string into a template" recipes. Instead, you'll find code to solve the kinds of problems you face in real applications: using multiple databases, handling sortable lists, using tags, and many, many more.
Right now, we're about 1/3 done. The current beta PDF contains 21 recipes: we'll be growing it to about 70 recipes over the coming months. As well as the opportunity for the usual great feedback, one reason we're releasing this early is to solicit ideas for other recipes folks would like to see.
As always with our Beta Books, you'll be able to get lifetime updates to the PDF, both during the beta process and for the life of this edition of the book. If you also order the paper book, it'll ship just as soon as we have it in stock (probably sometime in May or June, but you know what authors are like...)
* On Feb 4 0:06, Dave Thomas (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
If you also order the paper book, it'll ship just as soon as we have it
in stock (probably sometime in May or June, but you know what authors
are like...)
This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.
I got the beta book and already love the advanced *and* real-world examples. I would recommend a quite few more screenshots for us visual learners and, under Acrobat, the recipes are getting put in the bookmarks tree incorrectly.
As for topics, creation/manipulation of external content such as PDFs, images, graphing/charts, and OpenOffice/Word documents would be my cup of tea. The articles like email attachments is in that line of thinking: "Oh great, with Rails, I now have all the data! Now what do I do with it?" Most programming books run from the lessons that involve multiple libraries as "out of scope" and this book specifically takes that challenge on. Thanks!
I'm a little disappointed with some of the plugins/gems already requiring the Rails 1.1 platform for some of this but here's to hoping that's the norm soon enough.
On 2/3/06, Thomas Kirchner <lists@halffull.org> wrote:
* On Feb 4 0:06, Dave Thomas (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
> If you also order the paper book, it'll ship just as soon as we have it
> in stock (probably sometime in May or June, but you know what authors
> are like...)
> > If you also order the paper book, it'll ship just as soon as we have it
> > in stock (probably sometime in May or June, but you know what authors
> > are like...)
>
> Quick and surprisingly receptive?
>
> Tom
>
>
Yea, i think that's exactly what he meant
Except that he forgot good looking. ;^)
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On 2/3/06, Chad Fowler <chadfowler@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/3/06, Thomas Kirchner <lists@halffull.org> wrote:
> * On Feb 4 0:06, Dave Thomas (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
On 2/3/06, Chad Fowler <chadfowler@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/3/06, Thomas Kirchner <lists@halffull.org> wrote:
* On Feb 4 0:06, Dave Thomas (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
If you also order the paper book, it'll ship just as soon as we have it
in stock (probably sometime in May or June, but you know what authors
are like...)
