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This book definitely kicks ass. After I bought it I briefly skimmed it over and thought to myself, ‘Hm, these look alright, not sure how many I’ll be using though, I could do most of it on my own.’ Started a new project later that day and immediately used four of the recipes!
One of the things I really like is that it shows just how easy some of the stuff really is. For example, I hate writing authentication systems, and so have looked at using different generators, LoginEngine, etc. I could certainly write a simple auth system myself, but I don’t know how big it would be, which discourages me from doing so. When I see a basic system done in 5 pages of text and maybe 50 lines of code, there’s no uncertainty and I’m happy to knock it out.
Just wanted to ditto the “thanks!”...this book IS awesome. I highly recommend it to the Rails community. It’s actually being used just as much as my Agile book…and, it’s not even finished yet. If you’d rather not wade through edge source code, and want applicable examples…get the book!
Chad… the Polymorphic and Join table examples were exactly what I needed. I owe you a beer (or brewery for that matter), come RailsConf!