Hi -- On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, byrnejb wrote:
> > > > On Aug 5, 6:37 am, Eddy Josafat <[email protected]> wrote: >> Agile Web Development with Rails 3rd edition is the best choice, also >> The Rails Way give you some deep insight. >> >> Programming Ruby and Ruby Cookbook are good choices to learn Ruby >> >> On Aug 4, 5:43 pm, Sood <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am a PHP developer and I am interested in learning some RoR. I tend >>> to learn easier using a book, but there are so many out there it is >>> hard to pick! Can anyone recommend a good book? I am thinking about >>> getting "Beginning Ruby: From Notice to Professional" (http:// >>> preview.tinyurl.com/mj63z9) >> >>> Any suggestions would be helpful >> > > My votes would have to be for both of David Black's efforts, "Ruby > for Rails" and "The Well Groomed Rubist". The latter is claimed by > the author to be an update of the first, but having rad both several > times I find only a vague resemblance between them. The first is more > Rails oriented than the later, by intent, but both are very good > studies of Ruby using Rails as a representative sample of what Ruby is > capable of. The new one, "The Well-Grounded Rubyist", is just Ruby -- no Rails. It's kind of an update of "Ruby for Rails"... but the word I've been using is a "repurposing". It's just Ruby, updated for 1.9.1, lots of new stuff, all the old stuff reviewed and revised, no Rails. (I want to emphasize the no Rails thing so that I don't get any disgruntlement when people buy it and find that there's no Rails :-) David -- David A. Black / Ruby Power and Light, LLC / http://www.rubypal.com Q: What's the best way to get a really solid knowledge of Ruby? A: Come to our Ruby training in Edison, New Jersey, September 14-17! Instructors: David A. Black and Erik Kastner More info and registration: http://rubyurl.com/vmzN --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
