Comments on: WOW! Very Huge List of UpComing Ruby/Rails Books in 2008

By: Jafar

Jafar — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:12:58 +0000

I bought the well grounded rubyist (black) and it is really fun to read. Mr. Black is great at explaining things and answering questions when need be.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:07:50 +0000

Great and very usefull list

By: jonathanjulian.com » Lots of Rails books coming soon

jonathanjulian.com » Lots of Rails books coming soon — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:54:17 +0000

[...] we can get a nice warm-and-fuzzy about our current technology choices. For example, look at all the Ruby and Rails books being published in the coming [...]

By: Jimmy Ng

Jimmy Ng — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:54:28 +0000

I’m going through Ruby on Rails Bible, which I borrowed from the Library. It’s great at explaining the details, but nearly 70% of the tasks it gets you to do, have bugs in the code.

Which is good if you really want to learn and play around with. Except that I run a tight schedule, and I don’t have the time to sit around and look for where the author went wrong. It’s extremely frustrating and not helpful for new developers. I was even thinking of buying the book… I’ll obviously think again!

By: Timothy Fisher

Timothy Fisher — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:58:08 +0000

Ruby on Rails Bible is now available.
You can follow the book on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/rorbible

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:09:08 +0000

It will be interesting to see how many of these books actually come out on time, and which if any don’t even come out at all.

There were a couple of books from Apress that were Rails related and got all listing information about them removed the month they were supposed to come out after being listed on the Apress website for months. Those books were “Scaling Rails” and a book on TDD with Ruby on Rails by Joe O’Brien.

I’m sure there are reasons that books don’t actually get published and the book market isn’t the most lucrative industry, but it really sucks to get excited about a book coming out and then wait forever for nothing.

Supposedly, Robby Russell is writing a book for O’Reilly called “Programming Rails”, but I doubt it will ever actually get published.

By: Labnotes » Rounded Corners 214 - Thin and spare

Labnotes » Rounded Corners 214 - Thin and spare — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:13:20 +0000

[...] room in your library. Looks like an avalanche of Ruby books descending upon us in late [...]

By: Juixe TechKnow » The Rubyist: July Edition

Juixe TechKnow » The Rubyist: July Edition — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:11:53 +0000

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By: Eldon

Eldon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:00:59 +0000

I have a book coming out later this year for beginners to Rails for Friends of Ed – you can see it http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=9781430210399 (I didn’t write that description though and am working with them on getting it fixed)

By: Gregory Bluvshteyn

Gregory Bluvshteyn — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:49:50 +0000

It’s great that ruby/rails grows in popularity, however books wise I am pretty sure that you still need only 2 books

Programming Ruby – 3rd Edition and Agile Web Development With Rails – 3rd edition. Everything else (except for books that talk about integration with other services liek Facebook ( great book btw)) is just unnecessary blabber and openly bad way of making money.