From: Thomas Kirchner <lists@...>
Date: 2005-02-01T01:33:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommendable ruby books?

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* On Feb  1  1:05, James G. Britt  (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) thusly jotted:
> What difficulties do you (or anyone, for that matter) have with Rails
> that you think a book is needed?
>=20
> Do people find it that complex?

Personally, I think a book by Dave would be great for the Rails
community because of his way with pragmatism ;)

I think a lot of people have trouble starting out with Rails not because
of the implementation, but because that style of development is unfamiliar,
effective though it is.  Dave does really well, imho, showing off a
technology's practical virtues at the same time as teaching it fluently.

Seeing something like Basecamp (and Ta-da lists by extension) is great for
Rails' popularity, and knowing how simple Ruby and Rails make such things
is astounding, but we still need to wrap developer's heads around the new
concepts, especially when their background involves implementing
everything manually.
Tom

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