Buy My Book! (Please?)

Noel Rappin, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 @ 10:34 am

This week, my book Professional Ruby on Rails will be officially released. You can see sample chapters here, and you can buy the book at Amazon (affiliate link).

This book is designed to meet the needs of an intermediate to advanced Ruby on Rails user. The first wave of Rails books could not assume that the user had any pre-existing knowledge of Rails. As a result, they spent a lot of time covering the basics. The target reader for this book is somebody who has already read one of the basic books and now has to apply this knowledge to building a complete web site all the way from conception to deployment.

Written over the summer and fall, all the sample code in the book uses Rails 2.x, specifically including RESTful structures, respond_to, new migrations, cookie-based sessions, and other new features.

The book covers the kinds of tasks that nearly every site needs to
handle -- user models, database performance, time zones and
internationalization, creating common JavaScript navigation elements,
REST web services, and graphics. Where there are commonly used plugins
to support those features, the book covers those as well.

In addition to the application itself, there are other parts of the
Rails life cycle. The book covers many of these issues including how to
manage a Subversion repository, how to use Rake to simplify common
tasks, Capistrano for deployment, RailsBench and profiling tools,
generators, and plugins.

I wanted to include comprehensive and integrated coverage of
automated testing. In addition to a chapter dedicated to advanced
testing tools, nearly all of the sample code in the book is presented
with its associated tests first. I believe this promotes the use of
test-driven development and gives examples of how to test complex Rails
code.

I had a lot of fun writing this book. If you are a Rails programmer,
this book will improve your programs, and hopefully save you time and
effort. If you're interested, please check out the samples, and buy the book.  Thanks.

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1. 

   I am glad to see a book come out that isn’t a “crash course in rails”. After working with rails for the enterprise for some time, we realized the hard way that certain practices could be quite expensive.

   I would be interested to hear your opinion on what you recommend to beef up your app for enterprise deployment.

   Comment by John Paul, Monday, March 3, 2008 @ 10:37 pm

2. 

   I have probably upwards of 12 Rails books now… Hopefully this one is a little more “enterprise” grade. The only one worth buying so far is Obie’s new book. Looking forward to the read, purchased today!!!

   Comment by windexh8er, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 @ 3:15 pm

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