Learn Ruby on Rails with ‘Up and Running’

Ruby on Rails has become the poster child for cool in the server development world. Several months ago, hoping to find out what all the excitement is about, I installed Instant Rails , a nice all-in-one web server package and checked it out. As you probably know, I’m a Flash guy so I prefer developing for the front end. Even so, I quickly discovered that people had good reason to love RoR as much as they do. It’s beyond easy to work with and it’s a lot of fun! Recently, I received a copy of Ruby on Rails: Up and Running a thin little book by Bruce A. Tate and Curt Hibbs. It had been a while since my initial discovery of RoR, and I wanted to learn more. Coming in at a mere 167 pages, I didn’t mind sitting down to read this book. Seriously, it’s a super-thin book, and I think many people might pass it up because it looks useless. However, I found that the authors crammed a ton of knowledge into every page. A warning: This book assumes that you ar...