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Jump Start Rails

Get up to speed with Ruby on Rails 4 in a weekend

3.6

average rating (30 votes)

Created by

Andy Hawthorne

Published by

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Last Updated

12 June 2013

Details

Learn Rails and you'll write better code, faster, spend less time setting up and maintaining code and more time building. Consider this book an investment in your career. There's a huge and growing demand for developers with Rails skills, just look at any job board.

What you will learn

  • Convention over configuration
  • The Model–View–Controller (MVC) architecture
  • Test-driven development (TDD)

Description

In just a few short years, Ruby on Rails has grown from cool, hipster upstart to global powerhouse. Developers around the world are passionate about Rails, and with good reason. BUILD FAST with 60,000+ ready-to-go Ruby gems, powerful, new functionality is a never more than a few keystrokes away. DISCOVER Test-driven development for better programming practices. SCALE APPS Look at GitHub, Twitter, Hulu, and Penny Arcade. All huge. All successful. All Rails. GET HIRED Search any job board, there's massive demand for Rails developers. Those who have jumped onboard the Ruby on Rails train have never looked back and neither will you. Learn Rails and you'll write better code, faster, spend less time setting up and maintaining code and more time building. Consider this book an investment in your career. There's a huge and growing demand for developers with Rails skills, just look at any job board. Learn Rails this weekend.

Who is this for?

This book is for programmers new to Ruby and new to Rails.

Back-end developers experienced on other programming languages such as PHP will be able to get up to speed with Rails’ fundamentals in a weekend.

It is assumed that you know your way about the command line, and some programming fundamentals.

Creator

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Andy Hawthorne

Andy is a freelance writer and web developer from Coventry, England. He has spent 12 years as a web developer, and still likes trying new web coding technologies.
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Reviews

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Advait Panchal

Nothing Legendary, Mess but Still Good

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nicoschuele

Too many errors. The code compiles but the examples are outdated making the book confusing for its target audience, beginners.

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Chirag Arya

Filled with errors plus old stuff which you can easily get from EVERYWHERE.

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