From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T11:51:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Rails Rocks!

ditto, it's very good

On 5/25/06, Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@sun.com> wrote:
> David Pollak wrote:
> >
> > Just finished reading (okay, skimming) Ruby for Rails.
> > It's an excellent choice for someone who is new to Ruby and new to Rails.
> > Props to David Black for writing such an excellent book.
> > It is definitely worth buying.
> >
> I have to add my kudos, as well. It's a spectacular effort.
>
> For a practicing designer and developer, this book is an
> ideal introduction to both Ruby /and/ Rails.
>
> The content list looked good enough to buy it--especially
> since, as someone wrote elsewhere, it spends a fair amount
> of time on "those interesting language features you wish you
> understood a little better".
>
> So I was excited to crack the covers. But when I started
> reading it, I was even more impressed. It's beautifully
> written, and brilliantly sequenced.
>
> It's hard to imagine how much effort went into sequencing
> the material. Here's a small example:
>
>    In the section that introduces IRB in Chapter 1,
>    the author sneaks in the little tidbit that an
>    assignment is an expression that has a value. That
>    point will undoubtedly become important later on, when
>    more advanced concepts are discussed, so I was struck by
>    how adroitly the concept was presented early on--
>    innocuously, almost innocently.
>
> In short, it's a book I wish I had written. But I'm glad
> that I have it to read.
>
>
>


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Giles Bowkett
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