In just a matter of days, you can develop powerful web applications with Rails that once took weeks or months to produce with other web frameworks. If that sounds too good to be true, it isn't. Find out for yourself with Rails: Up and Running, the concise and popular book that not only explains how Rails works, but guides you through a complete test drive. Perfect for beginning web developers, this thoroughly revised edition teaches you the basics of installing and using Rails 2.1 and the Ruby scripting language. While Rails is praised for its simplicity, there are still a few tricky steps to master along the way. Rails: Up and Running offers lots of examples and covers just about everything you need to build functional Rails applications right away. Learn how to:

• Create simple database-backed applications, and build dynamic user-centric web pages using Ajax and REST

• Exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails and implement web services

• Map data to an imperfect table, traverse complex relationships, and build custom finders

• Use techniques to solve common database performance problems

See how fast you can go on Rails, and how reliable it's become with the stability and power of version 2.1. With Rails: Up and Running, you'll discover why Rails is a remarkable new way to build database-driven web applications.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 2 Ratings

Good start, bad finish - 2008-12-03
Reviewer Rating:
Enthusiastically supported this book till chapter 6. The first five chapters are a good fast introduction presented in a quick but understandable format with a few but no show stopping errors. Chapter 6 and 7 feel like the authors are trying to cram too much information into too little space and having done so quickly. Multiple errors, and simply too much information with out enough explanation, they should have left Ajax and Testing out, or given it the treatment it deserves.

The first five chapters are vintage O'Reilly, but the last two: not so much. I usually purchase ORA titles because they take the time to make sure the books are both technically correct and written for understanding. This version of book seems to have been rushed out the door. One of my very few disappointing experiences with this publisher.

Complete up and running. deep where it needs to be and fast everywhere else - 2008-12-02
Reviewer Rating:
already on chapter 5 and loving it. I highly recommend buying books written for current edge version of rails. All the examples worked wonderful for rails 2.0 and 2.1

cheers!
Jose

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