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RESTful Rails Development: Building Open Applications and Services 1st Edition

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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (October 29, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1491910852
  • ISBN-13: 978-1491910856
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
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2.0 out of 5 starsSolid Coverage, but Too Many Mistakes
By Nathan D on December 6, 2015
Format: Paperback
I purchased the ebook for this and it is almost unusable without keeping the errata handy, reading the open issues on GitHub, and Googling. I am not sure if the print version is different.

For example,

On page 46, it has you edit a migrations file and has this line:
create_table :categories, {:id = & gt; false} do |t|

It should read:
create_table :categories, {:id => false} do |t|, but the book formatting has replaced all "=>" with "= & gt;". How was this missed? This happens constantly throughout the book.

Then it has you add a "respond_to :json" at the top of the first controller you edit, which doesn't work in Rails 4.2 without the "responders" gem. Not a huge deal as it does specify Rails 4.1 in the Gemfile, but this book was just released and you'd think it would work for a version of Rails that has been out a YEAR AFTER the release of this book.

On page 50 it has use you add attributes to the generated CategorySerializer to show which attributes to include in the JSON response. It clearly says to "specify the attributes cat_title and cat_subcats", but then the following code just makes up attribute names that result in an error:

class CategorySerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer
attributes :title, :sub_categories
end

Finally, when you figure all of that out, it has you use curl to test the JSON response. It says the curl response should be:

{"category":{"cat_title":"SCIENCE","cat_subcats":34}}

But, after you figure out all of the problems from above (if you even do), you actually get a JSON response showing EVERY attribute.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsExample Code Errors Ruin the Ride
By El Juncal on December 29, 2015
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Chock full of code errors that prevent the example code from running ... resulting in a huge waste of time. As a previous reviewer has stated, you must keep stack overflow, google and the errata list handy at all times when creating the examples ... I expected MUCH BETTER from this publisher.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent book and worthy for a spot on your bookshelf!
By Kindle Customer on November 4, 2015
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Consider myself a junior RoR dev and with that I think an excellent book. Broad coverage of topics focused to Rails. It starts with the basics of restful, ruby on rails quick tutorial, designing API's in RoR, testing, deploying API, integrating into openweathermap.org, and lots of code examples and pictorial diagrams to help understand why things are done the way they are. It closes with a strong chapter on privacy and security. Fairly quick read if you skip a lot of the code examples and use code examples later for a reference.
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