<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Nov 22, 2006, at 11:26 PM, Anthony Green wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If only.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product//0596527314/ref=cm_aya_asin.title/026-648">http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product//0596527314/ref=cm_aya_asin.title/026-648</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">7718-1394811</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anthony Green</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Anyway, that's my 2p.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Geoffrey Grosenbach</DIV></SPAN></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>