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Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) 1st Edition

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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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0977616606
ISBN-13

978-0977616602
Edition

1st
Publisher

Pragmatic Bookshelf
Publication date

June 19, 2006
Language

English
Dimensions

7.5 x 1.05 x 9 inches
Print length

344 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pragmatic Bookshelf; 1st edition (June 19, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0977616606
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0977616602
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.05 x 9 inches

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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.

Chad is VP of Engineering at LivingSocial. He is co-organizer of RubyConf and RailsConf and author or co-author of a number of popular software books, including The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development.

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Scott Burton

Handy, but Outdated

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2009

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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. Unfortunately, much has changed in Rails since its printing. Many of the recipes are outdated. For its time, though, it was the best all-in-one collection of Rails tips. From what I understand there's a new version coming, but I don't know for sure.

The Pragmatic books are generally good, but I've come to prefer the Addison Wesley series on Rails and Ruby, which are thorough and up to date.

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Dan McKinnon

70+ Rails Tidbits In One Book!!

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2007

'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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Reuben Sivan

Too outdated for Rails 2.x

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2009

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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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Excellent set of RoR recipes

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2007

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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 the time of publication and the state rails is in now?

Anyway, it's minor things you can work your way through, but which nevertheless show the book's age.

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Daniel Schreiber

Excellent Rails book for those that learn by example

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2007

As someone who learns best by example and seeing how it's done, this book was great for me to get familiar with Rails. I have lots of experience with other object-oriented languages and have used many development frameworks. I don't need a tutorial on general object technologies, but I wanted to learn and understand the Rails framework. I don't have any real reason to get to know Rails other than general interest, but with this book I've been able to be productive in working on hobby projects much quicker than without it.

Reading this book is like having access to multiple, experienced Rails developers (including some of those contributing to the core Rails product) that have developed and deployed commercial software on this new, upcoming platform. I hope to have an opportunity to develop product in this technology and know that by owning this product I'm more prepared than ever. Highly recommended.

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Daniel Viescas

A real page turner

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2006

Receipt books are a different breed. By their nature they are difficult to just sit down a read and as such I find them sort of tough to review. Some years back I got into baking bread. All my receipts came out of James Beard's "Beard on Bread". I love the book, but I must say there are many parts of the book I have never looked at and others with lots of flour between the pages. The nature of a receipt book is you need to make something, you look it up, make what you need, and put the book away. Not this book.

Chad Fowler's book is something quite different. Fowler has a very comfortable and engaging writing style. In this way his book is more like a nice collection of short stories. I found myself reading one receipt after another, even if I knew I had no intention of using it anytime soon. When I did find myself trying out receipts, I found them thoughtfully organized and very easy to follow.

In recent years I've shyed away from programming receipt books, since I have found many to be really dry reading, or filled with lots of esoteric receipts I have no intention of implementing or interest in even trying as an exercise. I'm pleased I gave this receipt book and chance since it's a breed apart.

Does it have everything I'd like to see in it? No. Does it have some things I will probably never use? Yes, but surprisingly few, and who knows, these receipts seem so practical that I would not be surprised if some day I really did find that I have used most of them. I recommend this book to anyone who is serious about improving their Rails skills.

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