O'Reilly's "Rails Cookbook"

Posted by ryan
at 7:22 AM on Monday, October 23, 2006

A few weeks ago I got a call from O’reilly publishing asking me to write the REST chapter introduction for their upcoming Rails Cookbook. Apparently, some people found my effusive soliloquy on Rails’ upcoming Active Resource and Simply RESTful support actually useful and thought I could reproduce my intellectual facade for them.

After the first stab, in which I found out that writing a blog entry does not an author one make, I think I got something useful to them. But beyond my meager contribution I got to take a look at the rest of the book. I’ve always been a fan of the cookbook format and this looks to be no different. A lot of tasty recipes including some great post-development stuff like performance, security and deployment.

You can check out the rough cuts version at O’Reilly now or wait a lil bit until it hits bookshelves – which Amazon says will be Dec. 1st. Look for the book that has some sort of stray feline with a killer rash on its stomach…

And don’t forget the original entrant in the Rails cookbook market, Chad Fowler’s Rails Recipes.

tags: rubyonrails, rails, rails cookbook, REST

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  1. Neeraj Kumar – October 23, 2006 @ 08:38 AM
    Why there is no table of contents?
  2. Ryan Daigle – October 23, 2006 @ 09:01 AM
    Probably because it's still in draft form?
  3. Erik – October 23, 2006 @ 01:00 PM
    Um, Rails Recipes (title of your post) is a different book (non-O'Reilly).
  4. Alex – October 23, 2006 @ 01:38 PM
    Erik: I interpret that title as him saying that this book is Oreilly's equivalent of the Rough Cuts book.
  5. Ryan Daigle – October 23, 2006 @ 03:29 PM
    Erik: Wow, that's a pretty big miss on my part - thanks for the correction.
  6. Alex – October 25, 2006 @ 07:58 PM
    Guess I was wrong
  7. Ryan Daigle – October 26, 2006 @ 04:50 AM
    Alex - I liked your slant and almost used it - but it was really just a mistake on my part.
  8. Rob Orsini – October 26, 2006 @ 01:48 PM
    Here's the TOC: http://www.tupleshop.com/toc.html Hope you like it. :) Rob
  9. Ryan Daigle – October 26, 2006 @ 02:40 PM
    Full-O-goodies!
  10. Lori Olson – January 19, 2007 @ 10:58 AM
    Stray feline, eh? I guess you've never seen any of those National Geographic specials on wild dogs of Africa. ;-) http://www.cathouse-fcc.org/gifs-jpegs/southafrica/wd1stand.jpg
  11. Ryan Daigle – January 20, 2007 @ 03:46 PM
    Lori - I'd say the resemblance is striking!