Reviews for Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers)

1. Lovely book to learn rails

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, June 12th, 2007

   This book is very well written, easy to read and covers everything you need to know to get productive with Rails. However, I've been spoiled by Dave's 'Programming Ruby' book, which is so complete as to have entirely replaced the need for Internet searches. While 'Agile Development with Rails' is very comprehensive, I have still found the need to occasionally search elsewhere.
   
   So if you want to get started with Rails, this is surely an excellent book to buy. But if you want to know everything, you will need this book and one more (I'm still looking for that one).

2. Truely the definitive and complete guide to Rails.

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, October 12st, 2006

   Great read, excellently written, even covering the more advanced topics very efficiently and clearly. This book IS the bible for rails, look no further.

3. Great - but buy version 2

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2006

   Books on programming are often poor, using pointless examples and making unrealistic assumptions about your familiarity with the environment you're working in. This book is different. You work through the book developing a very satisfying, fully-featured application in a short time in such a way that you learn all that's important about using RoR in an agile manner.
   
   If you run into a problem then the publisher's site has a comments/errata board and very comprehensive downloadable examples of the solution you're trying to develop at every stage. I've not tested it but I'm sure the authors would respond personally if you needed them to.
   
   However, RoR is fast-moving. The second edition is in beta and it's very good indeed, making more use of things like Rake database migration and Ajax. I'd wait for that (or buy the beta now) if I were you.
   
   Then you can review it yourself and give it six stars.

4. Excellent

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, April 12th, 2006

   This book is a superb hands-on guide that will get you started with Rails in no time.

5. IT jobs devalued

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2006

   excellent framework for exceptional language that will make IT developers less smug about it all! great book with authority and clarity