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That review was based on a very early PDF draft of the book, and even the version dated 10/11/06 wasn’t much of an improvement listing just 3 chapters. <BR>
However, yesterday I downloaded the latest copy and there’s 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 there’s less obvious call for drawing a like for like comparison<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9.0px'>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.<BR>
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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).<BR>
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Anyway, that's my 2p.<BR>
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