Over One Terabyte of FREE PDFs!

By Matthew Magain | October 12, 2007 | Ruby on Rails Tutorials & Articles

Our hugely popular Ruby On Rails free PDF giveaway has resulted in us serving up over 1 terabyte of free PDF files!

Since the initial announcement that our beginner’s Rails book, Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Web Applications, by Patrick Lenz, would be made available in its entirety in PDF form for FREE, close to 50,000 people have downloaded the book.

Normally retailing for USD $29.95, the book has been completely updated with all reported errata, and includes an entire new section on debugging Rails apps using the ruby-debug tool.

Due to the large number of simultaneous requests, several people experienced problems downloading the book in the first couple of days. We immediately moved the file to Amazon’s S3, which handled the enormous load much more gracefully.

If you were one of these people, please try again now — this amazing offer is only good until mid-November!

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Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain (@mattymcg) is a user experience designer and former Creative Director of SitePoint. Nowadays he runs Useractive, a UX design consultancy in Melbourne, Australia. When not designing beautiful user interfaces or speaking at conferences, he can be found regularly ignoring his blog, m-dash..

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{ 7 comments }

mrsmiley October 15, 2007 at 9:31 am: @hannson How do you time limit a torrent? Once it spreads you cant stop it from circulating as far as I’m aware.
Roger October 14, 2007 at 8:36 am: Wow, that’s so cool! I’m doing a project using RoR and I’m so glad that I managed to get a book about it for free. Good stuff guys, a great book too!
hannson October 14, 2007 at 1:55 am: I’m just wondering here, did you ever consider torrents to ease the load on your servers?
Mark Harbottle October 13, 2007 at 8:35 am: Rene. The PDF is free for 60 days only, the hard copy is still for sale.
bolle1502 October 13, 2007 at 8:02 am: I’m sorry I had to pay for the hard copy, now it’s for free.
Strange way of doing business in my opinion.
Rene Simons
Potsed October 12, 2007 at 11:41 pm: Thank-you guys for releasing this book, much appreciated, I enjoy sitepoint books, now i have another.
Fred October 12, 2007 at 10:38 pm: I managed to grab one of these – highly recommended. Now heading off to order the dead tree edition to complete my collection :)