Reviews for Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice)

1. Do not buy this book!!!!

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2010

   Unfortunately, as the book is aimed at novice readers, rails has moved on considerably since publication. It now means that as soon as you hit chapter 3, the whole books falls down in a heap. Its almost impossible to set up a scaffold as basic components such as scaffolding and pagination are not part of the standard rails install and now require installation through gems or plugins. For a novice user this is almost impossible to achieve and can only help confirm rails as a complete nightmare to set up and configure.
   
   What makes things worse is that there is no additional support via the website, in fact, the only support i can find our old google groups conversations since 2008. Hours of wasted time.
   
   It does seem like a good book, the author writes and instructs very well with a great focus on practicality and process. However, I warn you, do not buy this book, its largely for pulping now.
   
   Wait until May and get Rails 3. - hopefully written just as well but actually current.