[LRUG] Ruby Books

Anthony Green email at acgreen.co.uk
Sat Nov 25 00:32:05 PST 2006


That review was based on a very early PDF draft of the book, and even the
version dated 10/11/06 wasn¹t much of an improvement listing just 3
chapters. 
However, yesterday I downloaded the latest copy and there¹s a whole load
more topics appearing out of nowhere, including as you say stuff on testing.
It has also fleshed out the areas where it was repeating ADRoR so there¹s
less obvious call for drawing a like for like comparison

Tony





> I also read an advance copy of the Rails Cookbook and thought it was much
> better than the other cookbooks out there. Yes, the examples were much more
> fine-grained, as you mentioned in your review, but all O'Reilly Cookbooks
> start that way for the first few examples. I showed a newbie the recipe on
> testing cookies and he was off to the races in no time.
> 
> There are many practical examples that cover a wide range of topics (including
> a bunch on testing). They actually put the time in to make it up-to-date
> (covering upcoming features of Rails that will be in 1.2) and involved the
> community (not just a few members from the core team).
> 
> Anyway, that's my 2p.


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