Book Reviews
July 27, 2011
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Author: Michael Hartl
Reviewer: Raymond T. Hightower
Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial is well suited for beginning Ruby
on Rails developers. Advanced developers will find it
useful as well. Here’s why:
- Sometimes, as we become more advanced, we miss fundamentals along the way. Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial will help to fill in the gaps.
- It is possible to know a concept so well that you can’t express it in words. If you’re an advanced developer, and you need to explain a concept to someone less advanced, you might not have the words to express your thoughts. This book can give you good building blocks for your explanations.
May 27, 2011
The Rails 3 Way
You may ask yourself why you need this GIGANTIC book especially having already purchased The Rails Way. I’m here to tell you to shell out the clams and pick this up! There you go, that is my review. Oh, did that not convince you? OK… let me go into a little bit more detail.
January 04, 2011
Apprenticeship Patterns:
Guidence for the Aspiring Software Craftsman
In times of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
February 14, 2010
Refactoring in Ruby
- Author: William C. Wake and Kevin Rutherford
- Reviewer: Nola Stowe
This is more like a “workbook” then a “how to write awesome code” book. You can download the code from github http://github.com/kevinrutherford/rrwb-code and you will find tests/specs for the exercises.
The book is arranged in three parts, The Art of Refactoring, Code Smells, and Programs to Refactor.
October 16, 2009
Design Patterns in Ruby
- Author: Russ Olsen
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series
- ISBN 10: 0321490452
- ISBN-13: 9780321490452
- Reviewer: Edwin W. Meyer
A “design pattern” is a general schema for coupling two or more code modules according to best practices that is widely applicable to many types of software systems. Design patterns were first popularized in the 1995 best seller Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, a collaboration of four authors informally known as the “Gang of Four” (GoF). Design Patterns in Ruby by Russ Olsen presents 14 of the 23 design patterns originally described by GoF (plus 3 new patterns) as adapted to the Ruby language. A valuable bonus is his review of some important features of the language.