Web Development Recipes Now in Beta

http://pragprog.com/book/wbdev/web-development-recipes

by emmamma91 • 15 years ago

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kenjackson• 15 years ago

No knowledge of RoR required? I ask because a couple of the authors list RoR in their bio. I love the book idea though. Will check it out if it's just HTML/CSS/JS (which it sounds like it is).

chriswarren4• 15 years ago

I'm one of the authors of the book.

You don't need to know any RoR. There are a couple chapters where we use some Ruby (Jekyll and Cucubmer-driven Selenium Testing), but we walk you through getting things set up properly if you want to use them.

MediaBehavior• 15 years ago

Does that mean that whenever you recommend server-side solutions that the server must have Ruby set up?

[OT question that has blocked this PHP-hobbyist from dabbling in RoR: do professionals ever add a new functionality as part of a web app via RoR when the bulk of project has already been built with something like PHP? (looking for motivation to start some experimentation in Ruby)]

SingleShot2• 15 years ago

I know its still under development, but are all the chapters in at this time? In other words, if I buy it now will I only be able to read 4 chapters (for example) until others are added, or are they all there in some rough form?

chriswarren4• 15 years ago

The beta currently contains about half of the chapters. More chapters will be added in the coming weeks as they work their through the review process, but they're not in the beta copy that you'll get today.

SingleShot2• 15 years ago

Thanks. By the way, I've been a back end developer for many years and have only dabbled in the front. The table of contents alone make we want to buy this book (probably will) as it appears to run the entire gamut of front end development and appears to be very up to date with what people are doing these day. For me it would be a "survey of front end best practices" that I can use to dig in deeper.

Web Development Recipes Now in Beta

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