Product Description
Rails is large, powerful, and new. How do you use it effectively? How do you harness the power? And, most important, how do you get high quality, real-world applications written?

From the latest Ajax effects to time-saving automation tips for your development process, Rails Recipes will show you how the experts have already solved the problems you have.

Use generators to automate repetitive coding tasks.
Create sophisticated role-based authentication schemes.
Add live search and live preview to your site.
Run tests when anyone checks code in.
How to create tagged data the right way.
and many, many more...

Owning Rails Recipes is like having the best Rails programmers sitting next to you while you code.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 12 reviews)

Nice book

This is an excellent book for people who already work with Rails. You don't need to reinvent the wheel ! You just need to take a look at this recipes and you'll find solutions for a lot of your daily problems.
November 08, 2008

Excellent set of RoR recipes

I would give this book 5 stars, but I only give it 4 stars because there are some minor quirks in getting some recipes to work, possibly due to differences between rails/ruby at the time of publication and the state rails is in now?

Anyway, it's minor things you can work your way through, but which nevertheless show the book's age.

November 09, 2007

Excellent Rails book for those that learn by example

As someone who learns best by example and seeing how it's done, this book was great for me to get familiar with Rails. I have lots of experience with other object-oriented languages and have used many development frameworks. I don't need a tutorial on general object technologies, but I wanted to learn and understand the Rails framework. I don't have any real reason to get to know Rails other than general interest, but with this book I've been able to be productive in working on hobby projects much quicker than without it.

Reading this book is like having access to multiple, experienced Rails developers (including some of those contributing to the core Rails product) that have developed and deployed commercial software on this new, upcoming platform. I hope to have an opportunity to develop product in this technology and know that by owning this product I'm more prepared than ever. Highly recommended.
May 13, 2007

When you just need a solution!

Look no further .... I would also recommend trying Advanced Rails Recipe which comes out in August '07....
April 11, 2007

Use it nearly everyday.

This is one of the best books I have come across for really giving me insight into how easy it is to do some things using Ruby on Rails that seemed massively complicated to do in other web frameworks and languages (Java, etc.) I guess the downside is that it is really hard to keep a book like this up to date, so I am expecting a sequel to come out at some point!
February 21, 2007

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