[Rails] [ADV] Rails Recipes Beta Book is now available

Dylan Stamat dylans at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 05:06:29 GMT 2006


Excellent !  Geat job Chad and team !!   Keep em' coming :)




On 2/2/06, Dave Thomas <dave at pragprog.com> wrote:
>
> I'm delighted to announce that Chad Fowler's new book, Rails Recipes,
> is now available
> as a Beta Book.
>
> This is  a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who
> want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for
> doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working
> code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.
>
> If you're used to other recipe-style books, you'll be surprised by
> the depth Chad goes to in this book. These aren't the usual "How to
> substitute a string into a template" recipes. Instead, you'll find
> code to solve the kinds of problems you face in real applications:
> using multiple databases, handling sortable lists, using tags, and
> many, many more.
>
> Right now, we're about 1/3 done. The current beta PDF contains 21
> recipes: we'll be growing it to about 70 recipes over the coming
> months. As well as the opportunity for the usual great feedback, one
> reason we're releasing this early is to solicit ideas for other
> recipes folks would like to see.
>
> As always with our Beta Books, you'll be able to get lifetime updates
> to the PDF, both during the beta process and for the life of this
> edition of the book. If you also order the paper book, it'll ship
> just as soon as we have it in stock (probably sometime in May or
> June, but you know what authors are like...)
>
> You can buy the book via http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Dave
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