Book Review: “Ruby For Rails” - David A. Black
Sunday, September 9th, 2007- Title: Ruby For Rails Buy it at BAMM!
- Author: David A. Black
- Publication Date: May 2006
Most new Ruby on Rails (RoR) developers figure that their first book should be “Agile Web Development with Rails - Second Edition”. While this may be true for developers who have had exposure to Ruby, most new RoR developers will be coming to the framework with no Ruby exposure. Ruby For Rails is meant to address this problem.
I found RoR in late ‘06, and (luckily) Ruby For Rails was my first Ruby book on the subject. I previously had no exposure to Ruby, but had developed extensively in Perl, C/C++, and Shell on Unix platforms. In retrospect, without the aid of this book, my Rails development skills would have been much slower to mature.
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