From: Aaron Gray <ang.usenet@...>
Date: 2008-11-08T00:38:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails book wanted for non Ruby programmer

"Hugh Sasse" <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote in message 
news:alpine.LFD.2.00.0811071528350.26471@trueman.cs.cse.dmu.ac.uk...
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am very interested to see what Rails is all about, and am looking for a
>> good book that covers Rails well and possible has a reference for it too. 
>> I
>> do not know Ruby but am familular with Javascript and PHP.
>
> Searching www.amazon.co.uk for "rails php" (without the quotation
> marks) turns up two books on rails for PHP users.  I've not used
> them so can't comment. Other online bookshops could be worth a look,
> too.

Yeah, I really would prefer a) a book that is not tainted by PHP references 
(should have said) b) is recomended by a reader.

Thanks,

Aaron