Agile web development with rails
Provides information on creating Web-based applications with Rails 3.2 and Ruby 1.9 and each of the examples has been tested with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, and 1.9.3.
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- "Programming Ruby" [0] ("the pickaxe book") and "Agile Web Development with Rails" [1], both from Pragmatic Programmers.
I learned Ruby and Rails through them in the late 2000's; they are still being released as new editions. It has been a while since I bought new books from PragProg, but they used to have a recurring sale of ~40% off around late autumn (thanksgiving?).
[0] https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/programming-ruby-3-3-5th-e...
[1] https://pragprog.com/titles/rails8/agile-web-development-wit...
- Agile web development with rails by Sam Ruby is a great intro to Ruby and rails.
The Ruby on rails channel on YouTube has a playlist explaining all the new components of rails 8 called rails 8 unpacked. Things like solid queue/cache and propshaft.
- Hmm, good question. I think I'd probably start with Agile Web Development with Rails 8.
It's the book I learned originally Rails with more years ago than I care to remember (pre version 1!).
Sustainable Rails is really more about how build bigger projects over the longer term.
i.e. good practice for reducing the churn on model files when you have a larger teams or how to do things with a miniumum of external dependencies.
It's great stuff but you can probably pick that up later if you want to.
BTW I just saw this in browser tutorial from learning Rails[1]. I've not run fully through it but it looks really promising to me.
- I learned RoR from the wonderful Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd edition). David Black’s “Ruby for Rails” and a little later “Eloquent Ruby” helped me to better grasp the difference between Ruby the language and Rails the framework.
I was a kid, and read the first two books 14 years ago. One on a holiday in Kenya and the other in Egypt. No distractions, just travel, family and reading.
These days it seems like a lot of junior developers want to learn it more interactively. I hope books stay popular. In my opinion, they do a great job at explaining the why & the reasoning, instead of just showing you how.
- > Web dev has become rocket science for those who started in this business in the late 90's
Nonsense! I've been around since the 90s too and let me tell you - you don't need any of the trendy new crap to make a successful app. You don't need a single page JS app except in very specific circumstances. You don't need microservices or serverless or map/reduce or Cassandra or NoSQL or nodejs or ML or any of it.
Ignore all that noise, go pick up "Agile Web Development with Rails 6" and just do it. Haters gonna hate but if it's good enough for github it's very probably good enough for you.
- Some years ago I was learning Ruby on Rails with the book 'Agile Web Development with Rails', that was a project-based book, and it seems to be released with an update for the recent versions of Rails.
