Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

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“ Ruby on Rails™ 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps.”

—Peter Cooper, Editor of Ruby Inside

Using Rails 3, developers can build web applications of exceptional elegance and power. Although its remarkable capabilities have made Ruby on Rails one of the world’s most popular web development frameworks, it can be challenging to learn and use. Ruby on Rails™ 3 Tutorial is the solution. Leading Rails developer Michael Hartl teaches Rails 3 by guiding you through the development of your own complete sample application using the latest techniques in Rails web development.

Drawing on his experience building RailsSpace, Insoshi, and other sophisticated Rails applications, Hartl illuminates all facets of design and implementation—including powerful new techniques that simplify and accelerate development.

You’ll find integrated tutorials not only for Rails, but also for the essential Ruby, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL skills you’ll need when developing web applications. Hartl explains how each new technique solves a real-world problem, and he demonstrates this with bite-sized code that’s simple enough to understand, yet novel enough to be useful. Whatever your previous web development experience, this book will guide you to true Rails mastery.

This book will help you

Install and set up your Rails development environment
Go beyond generated code to truly understand how to build Rails applications from scratch
Learn Test Driven Development (TDD) with RSpec
Effectively use the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern
Structure applications using the REST architecture
Build static pages and transform them into dynamic ones
Master the Ruby programming skills all Rails developers need
Define high-quality site layouts and data models
Implement registration and authentication systems, including validation and secure passwords
Update, display, and delete users
Add social features and microblogging, including an introduction to Ajax
Record version changes with Git and share code at GitHub
Simplify application deployment with Heroku

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RailsTutorial.org: Michael Hartl’s awesome new Rails Tutorial

The Ruby on Rails™3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps.

—Peter Cooper, editor of Ruby Inside

Very detailed and hands-on Rails Tutorial!

Great job! I’m learning Rails, and found your tutorial to be one of the most detailed and hands-on guides. Besides many details of Rails, it also taught me about Git, Heroku, RSpec, Webrat, and most important (at least to me), it emphasized the Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology. I learned a lot from your tutorial. Keep up the good job! Thanks so much for sharing it.

—Albert Liu, senior manager, Achievo Corporation.

Ruby on Rails Tutorial is the best!

Just wanted to say that your Ruby on Rails tutorial is the best! I’ve been trying for a while to wrap my head around Rails. Going through your tutorial, I’m finally feeling comfortable in the Rails environment. Your pedagogical style of gradually introducing more complex topics while at the same time giving the reader the instant gratification and a sense of accomplishment with working examples really works for me. I also like the tips and suggestions that give me a sense of learning from a real Rails insider. Your e-mail response to a problem I ran into is an example of your generous sharing of your experience.

—Ron Bingham, CEO, SounDBuytz

I love the writing style of the Rails Tutorial

I love the writing style of the Rails Tutorial, and there is so much content that is different from other Rails books out there, making it that much more valuable...Thanks for your work!

—Allen Ding

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Michael Hartl is a programmer, educator, and entrepreneur. He coauthored RailsSpace (Addison-Wesley, 2008), and was cofounder and lead developer of Insoshi, a popular social networking platform based on Rails. He previously taught theoretical and computational physics at the California Institute of Technology, earning the Caltech Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching. Michael is a graduate of Harvard College, holds a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Y Combinator entrepreneur program. He maintains the Rails Tutorial website at railstutorial.org. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN : B004JLMDOM
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (December 16, 2010)
Publication date : December 16, 2010
Language : English
File size : 29366 KB
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Print length : 576 pages
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Tathagatha

Good bag of tips and tricks. A bit unwieldy for a beginner

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2014

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Now that I've been doing a lot of Rails, it's a really nice book to go back to and quickly refer to some useful tips and tricks. However, as an absolute beginner it became very unwieldy after the first few chapters.

Rails itself was super easy to learn, but given that it has so many moving parts, it takes time to get a good sense of the ecosystem (for a beginner). This book attempts to fasttrack that process and doesn't always succeed.

The first few chapters give a really detailed overview of the various concepts around the MVC architecture, which is very well written and which I found quite useful. But a bit later into the book, the author sometimes resorts to a few lines of code and a brief description of why you're making that change to the existing codebase. For an absolute beginner to web frameworks, this method of learner requires that you put aside a substantial amount of time for this book. If you don't and you come back after a couple of days, you won't be able to fully understand what the incremental change is for and you'll be lost as a result.

Still, it is a good book if you set aside some time for it and have some background in web frameworks and MVC. Beginners will benefit too, but IMO, only after 2-3 readings.

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Windowshady

A Great Jumping Off Point

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2012

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If you're new to Ruby on Rails or Object Oriented Programming in general, this is the book for you. The author, Michael Hartl provides a thorough step-by-step guide to learning Ruby on Rails in simple, no-nonsense terms. You understand what you are doing and why you are doing it. This tutorial goes far beyond the typical "follow the bouncing ball" method found in most tutorials.

If you are willing to put in the work and have any level of aptitude for programming, you will learn a lot about Ruby on Rails from Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial. You will also learn to program the right way using test-driven development methods.

Pros:

* Hartl does not assume you have a background in programming and spends time explaining concepts like methods, variables, inheritance, etc.

* You learn not only what you are doing, but why you are doing it, which (for me anyway) allows you to understand broader ideas that will come into play as you move along.

* You will develop useful, functional applications and understand the principles behind them.

* The author stresses what is known in the industry as "best practices" so you know you are doing things the right way.

Cons:

* A good portion of the first and third chapters of the book are devoted to installing and configuring third-party applications like git and rspec, which can be very frustrating to get running correctly (although the author provides a great deal of troubleshooting help for known issues with these tools). This, however, is necessary if you ever hope to learn Ruby on Rails and use it in a production environment. (So maybe not a "con").

* If you run different versions of Ruby or Rails than the author uses, you will run into problems, (which is to be expected).

Overall, I highly recommend this book.

[Caveat: I DO NOT, however, recommend this book for the Kindle. The source code in the book is difficult to read because it is rendered as a graphic, meaning the sizes of the font are fixed. So if your eyes are less than perfect, it is difficult to read via the Kindle].

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R. Maxseiner

Great Intro to the Ruby on Rails World

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2011

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I'm new to the Ruby on Rails world and tried to learn twice in the past. I was not successful with the on-line tutorials and videos. The problem I encoutered was that I was really trying to learn multiple topics at once. These topics are interrelated so as a novice it is hard distinguish them. Ruby, Rails, Test Driven Development, Git, HTML, CSS, Installation of the Development environment all need to be learned together so you can do things the 'right' way.

This book explains each of these topics and relates them to each other. At the beginning there are many places where the author tells you not to worry about the code or other components since that topic will be covered in a future chapter. I found this very valuable since in the past I would often get stuck trying to understand the code or how things could possibly work with just two lines of code. Ignoring these details allowed individual topics to be learned individually and then layered together. Numerous references are provided to detailed references on each topic. This is important since eventhough the book is 500 pages, it only scratches the surface of each topic.

After reading the book, I feel like I have transitioned from lost to a novice with much to learn. While this may not sound like an endorsement of the book, I'm not sure how I would have made this transition without this book. I would highly recommend this book to anybody who is trying to learn RoR.

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Taz

Failed to teach simple concepts on how a rails app is developed

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2012

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Focused on everything but explaining the WHYs. This allowed me to follow the book in a very procedural one dimesnsional way until i had this awesome looking app that i had no idea how i would make on my own after completing the book. Michael tells you to do things and that about it. Doesnt tell the whys and the hows are extremely verbose in explanations - for example he called pound signs (#) octothorps. Michael failed to cover simple concepts of developing a basic app. He was all over the place in his book. While talking views and HTML concepts, Michael would randomly jump into test cases using rspec. I love the fact that chapter one introduces git and completes with a webapp running on Heroku, but after that everything went down hill. He focused much of the energy on configurations, rspec, a bunch of gemfile addins and just way too much verbose octothorp garbage. Just read the rails guides. They are great!!!

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C. Jack

Kindle Edition - Consider buying directly

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2011

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Excellent book, great introduction. However I'm giving this book a low score as the updates to bring it up to date with Rails 3.1 are only available online at the site for the book, not in the Kindle version. I would thus consider buying the book directly in this case.

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Marcin P.

Great book for beginners

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2011

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I went through a free online version of this book before decided to buy the hardcopy one. Great Rails tutorial for beginners, helped me a lot.

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Brice

Best way to begin Ruby on Rails development

Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2011

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The book realy guides you step by step throught the development of a web application.
Besides, it teaches you a professional way of programming (source version control, code formatting,...)
At the end of each chapter you feel like you've become a better RoR programmer.
It is the opposite of learning with a theorical book.
Moreover this book introduces you to other technologies that are usefull to any Rails developper.
I my opinion it's realy the best way of learning rails.

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InV4in

Hervorragende Einführung in Ruby on Rails

Reviewed in Germany on April 19, 2012

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Ich war auf der Suche nach einer guten Einführung in Ruby on Rails für jemanden, der weder in Ruby noch in Rails bisher jegliche Erfahrungen gemacht hat. Mit dem Prinzip Webframework, insbesondere MVC und eine unterliegende Skriptsprache bin ich durch den Umgang mit PHP und Django bereits vertraut gewesen.

Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial hält genau was es verspricht und sogar ein wenig mehr: es nimmt einen bei der Hand und zeigt sehr idiomatisch wie man gut konzeptionierte Webseiten von Grund auf im "Rail's way"-Stil entwickeln kann. Hierbei geht der Autor sogar über die Materie hinaus und gibt die beste Einführung in Test Driven Development die mir bisher untergekommen ist, gestattet fundierte Einblicke in das Arbeiten mit der Versionierungssoftware Git und lehrt sogar Regular Expressions, alles an Hand einer Beispielanwendung deren Bestandteile gut aufeinander aufbauen. Die Übungen nach jedem Kapitel sind (bis auf wenige Ausnahmen) tatsächlich wertvoll und weiterführend. Ich hätte mir manchmal jedoch eine Musterlösung gewünscht, da ich mir, besonders am Anfang, nie sicher war, ob meine Lösungen dem "Rail's way"-Stil entsprechen.

Nach dem Durcharbeiten dieses Buches war ich ohne weitere Ressourcen in der Lage eigene Anwendungen im REST-Stil mit Verwendung relationaler Datenbanken zu entwickeln.

Ich kann mir jedoch vorstellen, dass dieses Buch nicht jedermanns Erwartungen bedienen wird. Vor Kauf sollte man sich deshalb auf jeden Fall der folgenden Punkte bewusst sein:

- Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial ist kein Nachschlagewerk oder Referenz; es ist, wie der Titel schon sagt ein "Tutorial", dass an absolute Rails-Neulinge gerichtet ist. Es ist konzipiert von vorne nach hinten durchgearbeitet zu werden. Kapitel bauen fortwährend aufeinander auf und es kann deshalb schlecht zwischen verschiedenen Sektionen hin- und hergesprungen werden.
- Das Buch ist keine Bettlektüre, sondern ein Arbeitsbuch. Es erwartet, dass man dem präsentierten Stoff konzentriert folgt, da man sonst schnell den Anschluss verliert.
- Auch wenn der Autor im Vorwort Personen ohne jegliche Kenntnisse im Webdevelopment und Programmierung in seine Zielgruppe mit einbezieht, stehe ich dem sehr skeptisch gegenüber. Man sollte meiner Meinung nach fundierte HTML- und CSS-Kenntnisse mitbringen und es wäre auch nicht verkehrt, schonmal mit einer Skriptsprache gearbeitet zu haben, um sich auf die komplexen Ideen hinter dem Rails-Framework konzentrieren zu können und nicht von dem Wust an Informationen erschlagen zu werden.

Sind einem diese Punkte klar, so kann ich Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example jedem (der der englischen Sprache mächtig ist) nur wärmstens empfehlen.

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Reviewed in France on November 5, 2013

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J'ai lu plusieurs ouvrages sur Ruby et celui ci n'est pas le meilleur, le lecteur est perdu dans les premiers chapitres car l'auteur souhaite faire un panorama de tout ce qui est possible
Lors d'une relecture ulterieure j'ai pu comprendre les exemples ...

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