Agile Web Development with Rails
My copy of the above-titled book arrived today, so I’ll hopefully be able to properly get stuck into learning Ruby and Rails at last.
With the little bits I’ve played around with so far, it does indeed look like it can live up to the hype, it’s just going to take me a bit of adjustment to get used to Ruby rather than PHP.
October 15th, 2005 at 5:04 pm
[…] I did mention quite a while ago I was going to look into doing some development in RoR, but a hectic work schedule has meant I haven’t actually got round to it properly yet. The main problem is that not only do I have to learn Rails’ workings, I need to learn Ruby too and the doubling of required effort means it’s gonna need a bit more dedicated time to sit and get to grips with it properly. […]
March 5th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
[…] Last year I bought the Pragmatic Programmer’s book, “Agile Web Development with Rails” by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson. The Pragmatic Programmers have the cool method of allowing the purchase of their books before they’re finished, in which case you get access to the latest ‘beta’ version of the book as PDF. […]