{"id":92,"date":"2006-06-23T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2006-06-23T11:06:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T16:06:03","slug":"book-review-ruby-for-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/book-review-ruby-for-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Ruby For Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ruby For Rails<\/strong> connects the dots between Ruby and Rails.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwmontrealma-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1932394699&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a nutshell:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This book looks at how Rails uses Ruby, and in so doing, you learn a heck of a lot about Ruby programming.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ruby For Rails<\/em> goes into detail about basic Ruby, enough so that I think someone new to Ruby, could learn enough about the language to be able to build web applications. But, the book is not a comprehensive Ruby reference  &#8211; there are things that are not talked about. <\/p>\n<p>The thing I really liked about the book, is the way the author introduces a concept and then shows you how Ruby or Rails implements that concept in a practical application.  <\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<p>You are introduced to a Ruby construct called a &#8216;module&#8217;*. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You learn what a module is.<\/li>\n<li>Why Ruby has modules.<\/li>\n<li>How Rails uses modules and why.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am glad to have this book and think anyone interested in learning Ruby and \/or Rails, should get it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <\/p>\n<p>* Ruby <em>modules<\/em> are programmatic constructs that are like classes (they have methods and constants,) but they are not directly instantiated like a true class. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, modules are created to be inserted into to classes or objects to give the host class or object the extra functionality. Often modules are referred to as &#8216;mix-ins&#8217; because modules are mixed in to classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby For Rails connects the dots between Ruby and Rails. In a nutshell: This book looks at how Rails uses Ruby, and in so doing, you learn a heck of a lot about Ruby programming. Ruby For Rails goes into detail about basic Ruby, enough so that I think someone new to Ruby, could learn &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}