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The Rails Way
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The Rails Way

by Obie Fernandez
November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
18h 44m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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“I can positively say that it’s the single best Rails book ever published to date. By a long shot.”

Antonio Cangiano, Software Engineer and Technical Evangelist at IBM

This book is a great crash course in Ruby on Rails! It doesn’t just document the features of Rails, it filters everything through the lens of an experienced Rails developer—so you come out a Pro on the other side.

Dirk Elmendorf, co-founder of Rackspace & Rails developer since 2005

“The key to The Rails Way is in the title. It literally covers the “way” to do almost everything with Rails. Writing a truly exhaustive reference to the most popular Web application framework used by thousands of developers is no mean feat. A thankful community of developers that has struggled ...

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