Reviews for Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional

1. Good but if you're on Ruby 2.2.2 forget it

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, May 12th, 2009

   The book is really good and very well thought out and professional. However if you are on Ruby 2.2.2 a lot of the code doesn't work and is done the wrong way around which I discovered to my disappointment and had to bail out at chapter three.

2. A quick way to pick up Ruby on Rails

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2008

   This book is essentially a thorough tutorial that will teach you how to write an e-commerce website of your own. This was my first Ruby on Rails book and I found it invaluable. Ruby on Rails is too a broad to learn by picking through a reference manual; however, the tutorial structure of this book helps the reader focus on the essential building blocks that they will need.
   
   If you've never seen the Ruby language before then you will need an accompanying book to introduce you to the syntax and teach you some of the common Ruby 'tricks'. You'll also need access to a good Rails reference as well. (There are a couple of good ones on-line).
   
   There are a number of errors in the book's code examples. If you take the time to understand everything that the book teaches you then you should be able to fix the vast majority of them and and work around the rest. You'll deepen your understanding in the process. Alternatively, you could download the listings from the website.

3. Great for an intro to Test Driven Development

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, November 12th, 2007

   If you have played around with Rails, but need a little bit of help with how to improve your applications then this might be the book.
   
   Does not really spend too much time explaining Rails or Ruby so if you are a beginner this may not be for you, but if you are looking for the next step this is a good place to start.
   
   The book tracks the development of an online store and gives a good feel for how you should go about building and testing it.
   
   Again a number of the topics assume that you have some knowledge of the subject mater and complete beginners could get lost quite quickly.
   
   Also there are a small number of bugs in the code examples, but corrections are available from the books website and it does provide you with a few extra non-intentional debugging exorcises to get your teeth into.
   
   Good rails book.
   

4. Very good RoR beginners book

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

   This is a very good book for RoR beginners. If you already know a few things about RoR or are trying to build a real-life ecommerce website then you'll need a more advanced book. But overall a very good starting point.