April 2009 Reviews

Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails

April 30, 2009

Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails

  • Author: Maik Schmidt
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf 2008
  • ISBN 10: 1-934-35623-9
  • Reviewer: Edwin Meyer

Every “recipe” book of necessity is a tactical rather than strategic book, and this is no exception. Maik Schmidt provides a ground level view with competent how-to descriptions of a lot of different techniques.

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Enterprise Rails

April 30, 2009

Enterprise Rails

  • Author: Dan Chak
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media 2009, 325 pages
  • ISBN 10: 0-596-51520-0
  • ISBN 13: 9780596515201
  • Reviewer: Edwin Meyer

This is the book that I consider to be the true “enterprise” Rails book. It concentrates almost exclusively on topics that are essential to a successful implementation of a Ruby on Rails application in a complex computing environment.

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