Brian Sweeting

I received “Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails” on Friday, and the rest of my weekend was ruined, at least from a non-developer point of view. I spent most of the day Saturday reading and implementing the code for the sample application, a simple e-commerce engine. This by far has been the best way for me to get my mind wrapped around RoR. I’ve gone through a couple of online tutorials, but nothing has been as comprehensive as this book. If you are interested in Ruby on Rails, I highly recommend it. The appendix has a section on getting familiar with Ruby that was quite good, although I think I might need to go beyond that with the book “Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide, Second Edition”.