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Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) [Paperback]

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Rails is large, powerful, and new. How do you use it effectively? How do you harness the power? And, most important, how do you get high quality, real-world applications written?

From the latest Ajax effects to time-saving automation tips for your development process, Rails Recipes will show you how the experts have already solved the problems you have.

Use generators to automate repetitive coding tasks.
Create sophisticated role-based authentication schemes.
Add live search and live preview to your site.
Run tests when anyone checks code in.
How to create tagged data the right way.
and many, many more...

Owning Rails Recipes is like having the best Rails programmers sitting next to you while you code.

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Chad Fowler is an internationally known software developer, trainer, manager, speaker, and musician. Over the past decade he has worked with some of the world's largest companies and most admired software developers. He loves to program computers and, as part of his role as CTO of InfoEther, Inc., spends much of his time solving hard problems for customers in the Ruby language. He is co-organizer of RubyConf, RailsConf, and RailsConf Europe and author or co-author of a number of popular software books.

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Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; 1 edition (June 9, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0977616606
ISBN-13: 978-0977616602
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 1 inches
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2.0 out of 5 stars Too outdated for Rails 2.x, January 31, 2009

By	Reuben Sivan (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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The basics are great - if you were back in 2007 or so.
Now in late 2008 and early 2009 the book is too obsolete. Most examples, starting almost from the first page, will not run under Rails 2.x, as the book was written with Rails 1.x in mind.
Rails is a fast advancing technology, which makes some books quickly become obsolete. This is one of them.
In short don't waste your money, and try instead something like Advanced Rails Recipes, which I just purchased, and which was written specifically for Rails 2.x

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4.0 out of 5 stars A top-notch title, but /please/ give us more testing recipes!, July 4, 2006

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I am a novice Rails programmer, that much is certain. As a result, I'm quite happy to have Chad Fowler's "Rails Recipes" by my side. I have been part of the beta program for this book, so I've been reading it in parts for the past few months. It has been impressive, to say the least. As an author of my own "recipes" book, I am interested to see other authors' version of the recipe format, just in case I am able to incorporate something they do into a future book of my own. While Rails Recipes hasn't taught me much about writing a recipes book, it has taught me an awful lot of great things about Rails.

I look forward to using Chad's recipes in my current projects. I already have a couple of ideas, including prettying up my URLs and creating a custom form builder. If I had one criticism, it's the relative paucity of testing recipes. Writing Rails applications test-first is still a struggle for me, and I know there are those from whom I can learn. I would like the opportunity. (How many of you would like to come to Toronto to teach me?) I suppose I'll have to write a few testing recipes of my own.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 70+ Rails Tidbits In One Book!!, January 29, 2007

By	Daniel McKinnon (Tewksbury, MA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE)

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'Rails Recipes' by Chad Fowler is a wonderful book filled with 70 recipes which will automatically improve your Rails skillset and no doubt get you programming faster and better than ever before!!

Pragmatic is never going to win any awards for layout of their books, but the content within more than makes up for the drab interior. I can't list out all 70 tidbits here but I will give the breakdown of chapters:

User Interface Recipes (13)

Database Recipes (17)

Controller Recipes (10)

Testing Recipes (4)

Big-Picture Recipes (22)

Email Recipes (4)

If you use Ruby on Rails and want to be able to accomplish common tasks without rewriting code that already exists, you owe it to yourself to pick up this book and improve your efficiency the moment you turn the front cover over. Wonderful book, great size, solid writing make this an EASY recommendation.

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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4.0 out of 5 stars Handy, but Outdated
Rails Recipes is a great way to get accustomed to Rails-specific idioms and to incorporate many of the basic features used in dynamic web applications today. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Scott Burton

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book
This is an excellent book for people who already work with Rails. You don't need to reinvent the wheel ! Read more

Published 20 months ago by Marius Costache

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent set of RoR recipes
I would give this book 5 stars, but I only give it 4 stars because there are some minor quirks in getting some recipes to work, possibly due to differences between rails/ruby at... Read more

Published on November 9, 2007 by coffee_fan

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Rails book for those that learn by example
As someone who learns best by example and seeing how it's done, this book was great for me to get familiar with Rails. Read more

Published on May 13, 2007 by Daniel Schreiber

5.0 out of 5 stars When you just need a solution!
Look no further .... I would also recommend trying Advanced Rails Recipe which comes out in August '07....

Published on April 11, 2007 by Shardool Karnik

5.0 out of 5 stars Use it nearly everyday.
This is one of the best books I have come across for really giving me insight into how easy it is to do some things using Ruby on Rails that seemed massively complicated to do in... Read more

Published on February 21, 2007 by M. MCKNIGHT

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
There are tons of useful recipes in this book. It is a must purchase if you are new or intermediate to rails.

Published on December 8, 2006 by J. Nunemaker

4.0 out of 5 stars Valuable Tool
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Published on September 18, 2006 by J. Pease

4.0 out of 5 stars A real page turner
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