From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2006-02-04T00:06:36+09:00
Subject: [ADV]  Rails Recipes Beta Book now available

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