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Simply Rails 2: Your Rails 2 beginners book


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by Shayne Tilley

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.

Grab yourself a copy today!

This entry was posted on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 pm, contains 183 words, 1 image, and is filed under Ruby on Rails. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

This post has 6 responses so far

  1. cob Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    I just received mine. Can’t wait to take it for a spin!

     
  2. Kristian-BurdenB Says:
    June 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 am

    Looking forward to read it. One question though: why aren’t the train on the book cover running on rails? :-)

     
  3. Muhammad Kenzie Satrio Says:
    June 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    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…

     
  4. AlexW Says:
    June 4th, 2008 at 10:25 am
    Looking forward to read it. One question though: why aren’t the train on the book cover running on rails? :-)

    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 ;)

     
  5. AlexW Says:
    June 4th, 2008 at 10:34 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…

    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?

    ;)

     
  6. Aneem Says:
    July 21st, 2008 at 3:04 am

    Is this book for RoR 2.1?

     

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