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I have been playing around with RESTful Rails recently. Generic viagra, Below is my collection or Rails REST howtos, generic viagra, tutorials and other resources I have found so far and which were adequate for my transition from the first group to the second :-).

Generic viagra, You should definitely begin with REST 101 - then check out the other stuff as well!

• REST 101 by Softies on Rails
  • Understanding Resources
  • A Million APIs
  • RESTful Design
  • Routing
  • Respond!
• RESTful Rails Development
• A great PeepCode screencast: RESTful Rails
• A nice REST cheatsheet
• A presentation on REST and ActiveResource

Generic viagra, Please leave a comment if you know some more (just for completeness’ sake - I think the above resources should be enough to grasp RESTful Rails both theoretically and practically.

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The book starts off with installing Ruby, phentermine prescription, RubyGems, phentermine prescription, Rails and even MySQL on different operating systems, phentermine prescription, presented in painstaking detail - which is very good in my opinion, phentermine prescription, since advanced users will skip this section anyway, phentermine prescription, and it offers great step-by-step walkthrough for novices.

The second chapter is the compulsory ‘introduction to Ruby’. Phentermine prescription, I have to admit I did not read it - but judging from the contents and a quick skim-through, phentermine prescription, it offers at least the same knowledge as the other similar Rails-books, phentermine prescription, which is more than enough to get you started. Phentermine prescription, If you would like to go deeper into both Ruby and Rails, phentermine prescription, I suggest to check out David A. Phentermine prescription, Black’s excellent Ruby for Rails.

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If the review would end right now, phentermine prescription, you could (rightfully) ask: ‘So what? These are exactly the things I would expect from a Rails book’ - and you would be perfectly right. Phentermine prescription, So let’s see why is this book different from all the other ones available on the market!

First of all, phentermine prescription, it is written in a very understandable and easy-to-digest way: it explains everything as simply as possible, phentermine prescription, making even the more complicated topics clear right away. Phentermine prescription, I don’t remember reading anything twice, phentermine prescription, no matter how advanced the topic was. Phentermine prescription, I think this alone makes Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications one of the best hands-on RoR books today (definitively the best one I have seen so far, phentermine prescription, but since I did not read all the competitors, phentermine prescription, I can not unambiguously claim this is the best one).

What I also like about this book is that it does not require nearly any preliminaries at all - the bare minimum that is needed is explained on the side during the application creation, phentermine prescription, or can be learned from the book. Phentermine prescription,

A big difference compared to Agile Web Development with Rails - which is the de facto Rails book today - is that testing of the created components is described in great detail. Phentermine prescription, The usual workflow is thus problem statement, phentermine prescription, solution and creating unit tests to verify the code - explaining the why’s and how’s as well. Phentermine prescription, I am not aware of any RoR book currently available that would explain and demonstrate testing your code to this extent.

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Viagra prescription, Now, viagra prescription, I would not like to start a language war here at all - there is neither a need to draw zealous consequences from the Ruby camp nor to come up with explanation from proponents of other languages. Viagra prescription, The diagram shows that compared to the same period of 2006, viagra prescription, there is the biggest demand for Ruby (and other Ruby-based/related) books currently - and nothing more. Viagra prescription, It does not tell anything about the number of people using the given language or related frameworks, viagra prescription, job opportunities or the absolute market share - this is just a relative indicator based on the programming book market. Viagra prescription,

Viagra prescription, However, viagra prescription, if you take a peek at the TIOBE index for May - entitled ‘Ruby’s growth comes to an end’ - you can see that Ruby is the fastest growing language at the moment (again, viagra prescription, compared to the same period of 2006). Viagra prescription, If this is the ‘end of the growth’, viagra prescription, then how does the growth look like?!

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