The first edition was touted as the ultimate rails beginners book and read by 10’s of thousands of people. I’m pleased to announce a 2nd edition to Patrick Lenz’s brilliant book…
It’s called Simply Rails 2 and is available for purchase right now in PDF or Printed format at sitepoint.com.
Grab the printed version for just $39.95 or the PDF version for just $29.95.
With Simply Rails 2 you’ll learn how to build bulletproof Web applications from scratch, with more features using less code.
Patrick’s updated the entire book to take advantage of all the new Rails 2 features. It’s the only beginner’s book we know that’s Rails 2 ready…
Inside the book you’ll learn how to:
- Build and deploy your own Rails web application.
- Reap the benefits of using best-practice MVC architecture.
- Use Rails’s Ajax features to create slick interfaces.
- Interact with databases easily using ActiveRecord.
- Add the magic of REST to your apps with Rails Resources.
- Use plugins to enhance your applications easily.
Simply Rails 2 will show you that there is a simple and easy way to build web 2.0 applications.
I just received mine. Can’t wait to take it for a spin!
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Looking forward to read it. One question though: why aren’t the train on the book cover running on rails? :-)
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 am
I’m just received mine from Amazon, but haven’t read yet because my house is still under heavy-reconstruction…. still concentrate on that matter. Hope I can start open the book soon…. anyway I may be the first one who buy the book at amazon :D…
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
We actually ‘rented’ that toy train for the afternoon from a little asian goods shop up the road. They had dancing elephants and clockwork aeroplanes and wind-up bugs — but unfortunately no rails to put out train on ;)
June 4th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Hope you get a lot out of it when you do get time to sit down with it, Muhammad. You might even be the first reviewer on Amazon?
;)
June 4th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Is this book for RoR 2.1?
July 21st, 2008 at 3:04 am
Hi,
Great book and examples.
I’m trying to run the shovell example from the book and when I attempt to launch it with script/server I get a Permission denied statement. I expect that there is something that needs to be generated before the application can be launched. Can you suggest what that might be?
Thanks very much.
Jim
March 4th, 2009 at 12:32 pm