From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T10:55:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and RoR book recommendations

On Oct 8, 6:02 pm, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Michael Schidlowsky wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello all,
>
> > What books would you recommend for a course on Ruby and Ruby on Rails?
> >  I am currently evaluating books for a course I'm teaching next
> > semester and am trying to get a good sample before I make any
> > decisions.  I'd be happy to have separate books for Ruby and RoR.
>
> > Also, are there any books that you think are terrible and that we
> > should stay away from?
>
> > Of course reasonable people will disagree, but I'm just looking for
> > pointers to texts I might have overlooked, particularly advanced ones.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
>
> You can't go wrong with Beginning Ruby, and then it leads you to a
> brief Rails chapter the Sitepoing publishing book on Rails.
> Both make good texts, but you'll need to create your own assignments.
> though, this should be easy to do with both books.

I started the Apress ActiveRecord book and i read the sample chapter
on AR from Obie Fernandez' Rails Way (forthcoming).  They're both
excellent.