4.07 AVERAGE


Very good introduction to Rails and web development in general. I'm going through it a second-time now. I'm additionally writing a review on each chapter on my blog. delantebess.wordpress.com

By far, this is the best tutorial I've taken for any programming language. It's the perfect jumpstart to Ruby on Rails where he teaches you as you code. He even equips you with some basic Ruby syntax and concepts along the way.

It's even free to read online! (I bought the book because I wanted to support this wonderful work and know I'll be referring back to it often, as I jump into my own projects.)
https://www.railstutorial.org/book

Word of advice: walk through it exactly as he does it, and take notes for yourself along the way! You will use many of these techniques/features again and again.

lissilissi's review


Used this to prepare for an internship and it was very useful 👍🏻. Dropped the book when I started the internship though

Contains a lot of explanation, but I did the codeacademy course and personally that one is better than this book. And some people that know about Rails told me this book have some bad practices on it.

This is an awesome and meaningful introduction to ruby on rails programming, with an example from start to finish that is a reasonable level of complexity, instead of the usual toy app. I can see myself referring to this book, and the code for the app I built step-by-step while reading it, many times in the future. Well done.

Extremely comprehensive tutorial, to the extent that I don't think tutorial is even the right name. It's more of a guide to building a full rails app from the ground up. Recommended for all rails developers.