Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition

by Chad Fowler

Thousands of developers have used the first edition of "Rails Recipes" to solve problems known to stop even experienced programmers in their tracks. Now, five years later with Rails 3.1 released, it's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934356778
• ISBN13: 9781934356777
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Nice book

This is an excellent book for people who already work with Rails. You don't need to reinvent the wheel ! You just need to take a look at this recipes and you'll find solutions for a lot of your daily problems.

Excellent Rails book for those that learn by example

As someone who learns best by example and seeing how it's done, this book was great for me to get familiar with Rails. I have lots of experience with other object-oriented languages and have used many development frameworks. I don't need a tutorial on general object technologies, but I wanted to learn and understand the Rails framework. I don't have any real reason to get to know Rails other than general interest, but with this book I've been able to be productive in working on hobby projects much quicker than without it. Reading this book is like having access to multiple, experienced Rails developers (including some of those contributing to the core Rails product) that have developed and deployed commercial software on this new, upcoming platform. I hope to have an opportunity to develop product in this technology and know that by owning this product I'm more prepared than ever. Highly recommended.

70+ Rails Tidbits In One Book!!

'Rails Recipes' by Chad Fowler is a wonderful book filled with 70 recipes which will automatically improve your Rails skillset and no doubt get you programming faster and better than ever before!! Pragmatic is never going to win any awards for layout of their books, but the content within more than makes up for the drab interior. I can't list out all 70 tidbits here but I will give the breakdown of chapters: User Interface Recipes (13) Database Recipes (17) Controller Recipes (10) Testing Recipes (4) Big-Picture Recipes (22) Email Recipes (4) If you use Ruby on Rails and want to be able to accomplish common tasks without rewriting code that already exists, you owe it to yourself to pick up this book and improve your efficiency the moment you turn the front cover over. Wonderful book, great size, solid writing make this an EASY recommendation. ***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Great Book

There are tons of useful recipes in this book. It is a must purchase if you are new or intermediate to rails.

Rails Top Book

Since I learned of Ruby and Rails I instantly became a fan and supporter of them. I bought both, the hard copy for when it releases, and electronic access to on-going work on the book. (like having access to the writer's desk) Every chapter, every line, are clear instructions on how to implement a feature you'll surely need to. This book can save you many 'figuring out' hours by letting you know how to do it right the first time. It's just an amazing hands-on reference on the Rails framework.