From: Dark Ambient Date: 2006-08-31T21:19:25+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Books The recently released book , Ruby Cookbook while not an outright learning book, used in adjunct can be quite helpful. There is a chapter devoted to Rails, the first chapter covers ERB templates and many other recipes can be very useful in a Rails app. Stuart On 8/31/06, Eduardo Y瘻ez Parareda wrote: > > > Does anyone have a comment on how the 2nd de. is coming along. I > > guess that that's really a question for the rails forum, but drinking > > from this one fire hose is enough. > > I have both of them, and 2nd ed although is a beta version covers many new > Rails features (migrations, REST, some of AJAX...). First ed. is really good, but > 2nd is better. > > Answering the original post, I think Pickaxe is the better choice. But I must say > I haven't read Ruby for Rails. > >