Review: Practical Rails Social Networking Sites

October 23rd, 2007

Good

  • Takes a project right from start to finish
  • Agile/small team approach - design a feature, implement, repeat
  • Covers popular subjects: social networking, google maps, microformats
  • Shows effective use of plugins
  • Testing made part of the development process from the beginning

Not so good

  • Unfortunately based on Rails 1.2 which means that a fair amount of the url helpers wont work on the latest release of Rails
  • It would have been great to see test-driven development - books can inspire cultural change

Overall

Despite being pitched as more advanced on the 'Apress Roadmap', this book would equally appeal to people new to Rails and those with a bit more experience. It's 'real-world' project approach makes the learning much more relevant - a must for motivation.

Rating: 8/10

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