{"id":2516,"date":"2009-08-13T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T21:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2009-08-13T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T22:04:07","slug":"learning-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/08\/13\/learning-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-2516\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Learning-Rails-Simon-St-Laurent\/dp\/0596518773\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1250199912&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Learning Rails<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span><strong>Author: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Simon-St.-Laurent\/e\/B000AQ3YA2\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\" target=\"_blank\">Simon St. Laurent<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Edd%20Dumbill\" target=\"_blank\">Edd Dumbill<\/a> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 442 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> O&#8217;Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (November 28, 2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0596518773<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0596518776<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have a couple ideas for data-driven Twitter tools, and I read part of one book on Ruby on Rails before, so since that book&#8217;s in storage I grabbed a copy of this one.<\/p>\n<p>The book works from the outside in &#8211; it assumes you&#8217;re a web designer, so it starts with the web interface, introducing the database aspects later.\u00c2\u00a0 Which isn&#8217;t what I wanted of course &#8211; I want to understand how to use Rails to simplify and speed up database construction and management, along with giving me quick web front ends I can later customize.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; the book works, but it seems backwards for a toolkit that has the intent of making it faster to build data-driven web applications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-2516\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 2516);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-2516\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-2516\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Learning Rails Author: Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill Paperback: 442 pages Publisher: O&#8217;Reilly Media, Inc.; 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