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Hey, Free Book Samples!
As I've mentioned here a few times, I have a book coming out, "Professional Ruby on Rails", available later this month.
If you'd like a sneak peek, Wrox has put some samples online as PDF files. You can also just buy the book.
- Chapter 1 -- This sets up the sample project used in the book, and talks about the new REST features in Rails.
- Table of Contents -- Take a look at this to see if your favorite topic is covered.
- Index -- A more detailed way to see if your favorite topic is covered. Also, maybe you collect indexes...
Enjoy. Chapter one is a nice overview of the goals of the book: a focus on intermediate-to-advanced issues that affect real sites, and a real emphasis on how to manage test-first development of all these features.
I'm not sure if the publisher plans on adding more sample content -- if so, I'll update this post.
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Comment by ashok, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 @ 3:23 am
Is there a pdf version available?
Comment by mikeinaz, Thursday, March 6, 2008 @ 10:24 am
My understanding is that a pdf version will be for sale about six weeks after the print sale date, which would be early April. (My own request for the publisher to send me an author’s copy of the final PDF has not yet been filled). I have no idea why they set it up this way.
You’ll be able to buy the ebook at wiley.com, it will also be available as part of the Wrox book subscription service.
I was also told that that there might be a version for the Amazon Kindle, pending a large backlog in getting books converted.
Comment by Noel Rappin, Thursday, March 6, 2008 @ 10:32 am
Thanks, Noel. I’ll just get the book, I can’t wait that long
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