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Title: Crossing the chasm: Ruby to Rails
Review: Ruby for Rails fills an important gap between the pickaxe (Programming Ruby) and Agile Web Dev. with Rails. Agile will give you a gentle introduction to Rails, pickaxe will be your Ruby reference, but Ruby for Rails will help you cross the chasm from an everyday Rails user to a power programmer who is comfortable with the crooks and crannies of Ruby.David Black spends much of the book covering Ruby internals to give you a better feel and understanding for the structure of Rails, Ruby, and their numerous idioms. In the end, everything is brought together in a sample iteration of a Rails app, where many of the customizations all of the sudden make much more sense.The book is worth every penny, and even more importantly, it is worth your time if you're serious about Ruby, Rails, or both. Highly recommended.
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