http://www.yup.com/articles/2006/04/25/free-rails-tutorial-from-upcoming-rails-book en-us 40 Advanced Web Services <p><img src="http://www.mrneighborly.com/images/cover.png" style="float:right; border:1px dotted #ccc;padding :4px;margin:4px;" /></p> <p>Jeremy McAnally has a new Ruby on Rails book in the works, joining the minions about to be released. Entitled <i>Mr. Neighborly&#8217;s Relevant Ramblings, Pointed Pontifications, and Thought Theories on Ruby &amp; Rails</i>, the self-published book will be based on Rails 1.1 and Ruby 1.8.4. The first chapter, a 60-page Rails tutorial is available for free on the web.</p> <p>The tutorial serves as a thorough introduction to Ruby syntax, classes, methods, modules, and things like regular expressions, spelled out clearly with a rich sauce of examples. So, if you found <a href="http://poignantguide.net/ruby/index.html">Why&#8217;s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby</a> just too &#8220;entertaining&#8221; a way to learn Ruby, or you don&#8217;t won&#8217;t your boss to think you&#8217;re having too much fun on the job, give this one a try.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mrneighborly.com/book">Mr. Neighborly Rails Book Site</a></p> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:37:00 -0400 urn:uuid:3007363f-a71e-4e68-9180-12a92e2df971 Daniel Butler http://www.yup.com/articles/2006/04/25/free-rails-tutorial-from-upcoming-rails-book Ruby on Rails Programming <p>I was skeptical at first of this book, but I thought, eh, why the heck not! A free chapter on Ruby. I read it and I was very impressed. It explained the language in a very natural way. I&#8217;m excited about reading additional chapters, if not just splurging and buying the book.</p> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:12:07 -0400 urn:uuid:d5289df2-e076-4ad7-bf31-5165e384ec72 http://www.yup.com/articles/2006/04/25/free-rails-tutorial-from-upcoming-rails-book#comment-37