From: Christian Luginbuehl <dinkel@...>
Date: 2007-05-12T10:06:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading materials

> 2) Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers)
> 
> I believe book #2 is referred to as the "pickaxe" in the Rails
> community?  Have I made a good choice on materials, or are there some
> other books I should be looking into?

As you probably have read already, the PickAxe Book is "Programming
Ruby", but let me say, that in my opinion, #2 is the number one book for
learning Ruby on Rails.

When I stated using Rails I found it very helpful to have quite some
understanding of Ruby as a programming language to get into (and
acknowledge) the thought-out internals of Rails.

So, if you want to get to know Ruby, get the PickAxe book (a.k.a.
'Programming Ruby') and if you want you get into Rails, get 'Agile Web
Development with Rails' as starters.

I can't tell you much about others, but some: 'Rails Recipes' is more
for intermediate Rails programmers that start to create some "real" apps
and need some advice and hints on how things should/can be done. I also
read 'The Ruby Way' which also is not for total Ruby noobs but very
helpful with lots of good real-world example code. I read some very good
reviews about 'Ruby for Rails' but never read it personally.


Cheers,

Christian Luginbuehl