I write for developers who learn best by following clean examples. I don’t like the idea of coding one big single application throughout a book but prefer smaller stand-alone code examples. Therefore, you can skip a couple of pages or even complete chapters without losing context.
This is my fifth Ruby on Rails book. It’s divided into two parts. The first part (the one you are reading now) covers all the basics. It gives you the important groundwork to create a Rails application. The second one dives into advanced topics (e.g. TDD, I18n, Caching, ActionCable, Secrets, etc.).
Don’t let people fool you into believing that Ruby on Rails is easy to learn. It is not! It’s one of the best and most effective frameworks to develop web applications but it is hard to understand in the beginning. The worst mistake of all is to not learn Ruby before diving into Ruby on Rails. To avoid it this book starts with the basics of Ruby. You will not become a Ruby guru after reading it but you’ll understand the basic ideas and that is important.
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Have fun with Ruby on Rails!
Stefan Wintermeyer