Hello, I am the main author of Rails 3 in Action.
During June, I worked hard on upgrading this book to support the 3.1 release. Our work then was pretty decent and relevant to Rails 3.1 final, as it turns out. Since then, the book has been undergoing the long, drawn-out production phase that most books go through... But! I am told the book is going to print TOMORROW. It will be available for the first time at the StrangeLoop conference in around two weeks and bookstores and online shortly thereafter. I'll say that the book *doesn't* cover the Asset Pipeline stuff, but it also doesn't cover Internationalisation. This is because they both have fantastic guides that cover that information, and putting it in the book would just be repeating what is there. I'd rather not do that The major "thing" of the book is that it gives you a pretty comprehensive walkthrough of building an application from the ground- up using RSpec + Cucumber and, I've heard, does it in a nice easy- going manner. In Chapter 17, we show how to build an engine and integrate it with an application, which is really solid in Rails 3.1 now, and we also show Capybara request spec testing. Chapter 18 covers Rack applications and how to hook them into the application as well. I'm sure you'll find lots of great and interesting stuff in the *other* 16 chapters also! If you have any questions about the book, I'd be more than happy to answer them on the Manning Author Forum for the book over here (http:// www.manning-sandbox.com/thread.jspa?forumID=541) Thank you so much for your interest, and thanks to Sandip Ransing for the recommendation! -- 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.
