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# Rails Crash Course: A No-Nonsense Guide to Rails Development 1st Edition

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## Customer Reviews

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    Four Stars
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 30, 2016*

I found RCC at the library, got about 34 pages in and wanted one.

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    Rails Crash Course by Anthony Lewis (No Starch Press)
  

*by B***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2014*

Before I submit my review for this book, let me preface by pointing out I am not now, nor I have ever been, a Ruby/Rails developer. But I am an experienced software engineer and wanted to learn something about Rails development, hence my desire to use the book and subsequently review it for O'Reilly. So my approach to the book is as a novice Rails guy.Rails Crash Course by Anthony Lewis seemed to provide relatively good coverage of Ruby and Rails from what I can tell, with lots of practical code samples.Note: What you won't find here is very good advice on how to install and configure Ruby and Rails for your given environment. Trust me when I say that's half the battle. Hence, my suggestion right off is you do some research ahead of time for how to install and configure for your system. I recommend the site https://gorails.com and failing that, check out the Rails Forum.Back to the book, chapter two covers fundamentals of the Ruby language in brief, then moves to the concept of Rails development. There is a discussion of MVC in the Rails development philosophy, the principles behind using Rails, and a basic overview of Rails structure and commands.The book then gets into more detail, covering each aspect of the models, controllers, and views development, respectively, and wraps up with deployment via the Heroku cloud platform. This is where is gets really heady, and where you quickly discover that in fact NO, Windows is definitely not the best platform for RoR dev. In fact, I highly encourage not to use Windows to follow this text. You're better off with using a sim like VirtualBox against some other OS (I used Ubuntu 14.n). Mac OS X is considered ideal, but I highly suggest not to follow the Ubuntu setup discussed in Chapter 15. There are easier ways.The author then tackles testing, performance optimization, debugging, and custom deployment scenarios. All in all, the book is definitely a crash course and not for the feint of heart. This is not a beginner's book; No Starch is known for its books that make lots of assumptions about their audience. They expect experience and I recommend you have quite a bit of development time before you go through this endeavor.That said, I found the text to be competently written and with few notations as errata. In some cases, things just didn't work but I don't necessarily blame the book. I'm still troubleshooting. The big con here was I found some of the topics a little disjointed, and I think only 10 pages devoted to debugging a little too lean. At the end, I considered the text practical but a bit mediocre at points.Disclaimer: In the interest of full disclosure, I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review. My opinions about the book are my own and based on my many years of experience as a professional software engineer and web developer.

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    Good information, subpar organization: read it twice to make the most
  

*by M***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 25, 2016*

Rails Crash Course has some great, to the point, practical advice on building applications with Rails. But I feel quite a bit of it is poorly organized which it didn't have to be.The book is in two parts - the first 6 chapters cover the basic of the Ruby language and the Rails platform. The remaining 9 or 10 chapters go further in depth. The book is somewhat tersely written and doesn't do spoon feeding. The good part is that this keeps the book concise. The bad part if, you really want to call it that, is that you have to read it twice - both times with deliberation, to start making sense of some of the parts. In addition, in some chapters the author digresses to cover some prerequisite material before resuming focus on the core topic of the chapter. However, in many cases the rationale for these digressions are not clearly explained and you have to read on to figure out why such random jumps are needed. This is symptomatic of a poorly (perhaps hastily) organized book - great content but one that could be presented much better than it is.In spite of that, the amount of content that this book condenses to just under 300 pages is considerable. So the book has enough to offer to the patient and smart reader. Hence I'll go with a 4 star.

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