Comments on: Crafting Rails Applications: Why I wrote this book

By: Endy

Endy — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:27:00 +0000

Magic is technical debt, it gets you through tight spots in the beginning, but later you have to study the magic to get further.

By: Michael Reed

Michael Reed — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:42:00 +0000

Just bought the beta of your book. Thanks. 3 months into learning rails after a decade of web + other stuff development and I love it. Thankful for the magic and for the education about what’s behind it.

I also appreciate devise.

By: Kirk Quesnelle

Kirk Quesnelle — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:12:00 +0000

Just picked this up.. cannot wait to dig into this.

Thanks José

By: Kirk Quesnelle

Kirk Quesnelle — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:12:00 +0000

Just picked this up.. cannot wait to dig into this.

Thanks José

By: aaron blohowiak

aaron blohowiak — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:41:00 +0000

Convention over configuration: sane default values. magic: changing the scope in which a block is eval’d so you can inject BlankSlates that have method_missing defined on them that then do some string manipulation in order to pick which code path to take.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:41:00 +0000

Good article, Valim.

Check out Docco.js for documenting code. You might find that you can use it to help your readers through the code examples and activities in your book. This is worth looking into as the big weakness in the Pragmatic Programmers series is their site. The forums and wikis are poorly frequented and stuff gets out of date on their too fast and posting questions on their is an exercise in futility, since few people frequent the site often enough to answer questions in a timely manner.