Rails for .NET Developers now shipping + Pragmatic Podcast

Posted by brian Wednesday, October 15, 2008 18:17:00 GMT

We're happy to announce that our book, Rails for .NET Developers, is now shipping! You can pick it up today in plain ol' paper, PDF, or a combo. We hope you enjoy it as much we enjoyed writing it.

Jeff and I are also featured in today's Pragmatic Podcast... thanks to Susannah Pfalzer for the interview.

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  1. josh   October 15, 2008 @ 07:17 PM

    cool. adding to my wish list. probably at the top next to the new (first) Mac.

  2. Chris J   October 16, 2008 @ 03:29 AM

    Congratulations, guys!

  3. Scott Stawarz   October 21, 2008 @ 11:24 PM

    Congrats Guys! I am sure this took a lot of time and effort not to mention pain of staying current with Microsoft .NET.

  4. Jon   October 28, 2008 @ 03:47 PM

    Does this reference the Rails 2.1 framework?

  5. Jeff   October 28, 2008 @ 11:19 PM

    Hi Jon,

    Yes, we did our best to update everything for 2.1, which was released just as we were finishing the final draft. And feel free to add another comment if you have any other questions at all about the book.

  6. Jon   October 29, 2008 @ 12:40 PM

    Thanks Jeff,

    Just listened to the podcast from The Pragmatic Bookshelf, very interesting.

    I have bought a Mac and would like to commence development on it (hope my colleagues don’t find out – sacrilege!!) and was wondering whether the book did examples etc for the OS X platform?

    Jon

  7. Jeff   October 30, 2008 @ 01:20 AM

    Jon,

    Good question. We recognized right from the beginning that many readers, like ourselves, are switching away from Windows as well. We tried to make the book very readable whether you’re developing on Mac or Windows.

    For example, the way you get Rails installed on your system is something we cover early on for both Mac and Windows; and the style of command-line prompt syntax is of course slightly different. We tend to favor Windows command prompt examples in the book, but also threw in some Mac-looking command prompts for good measure.

    Fortunately Leopard ships with Ruby 1.8.6, RubyGems, and SQLite3 already installed, so you’ll just need to install the Rails gems to get going (and a text editor of your choice).

    Hope this helps?

  8. Jon   October 30, 2008 @ 09:20 AM

    Thanks for your replies. I will certainly be buying your book. I have managed to install ruby and gems and textmate already using Macports.

    My one big difference that I have noticed (which you mentioned in the podcast) is the lack of intellisense when developing for this. Do you know of any editors that are developing software for this purpose?

    Thanks

  9. Jon   October 30, 2008 @ 06:49 PM

    FYI I just came across this http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/subsonic-mvc-adding-updated-for-beta-1/ which I thought was interesting and I know you mentioned Microsoft coming to the MVC game with ASP.Net so thought I would see what you thought of it

  10. Tiny   November 10, 2008 @ 12:33 PM

    Looking forward to getting my copy this week! Congrats on making it to print!

  11. Ed   November 13, 2008 @ 03:43 PM

    http://idisposable.net/2008/11/13/rails-for-net-developers-new-book-out/

    “Our friends over at Softies on Rails have put a book out that will help any .NET developer looking to work with Ruby on Rails. The Softies crew was an early inspiration for me to try out Ruby and Mac development, and I am really happy for them that they were able to put this tome together.”

    Nice work guys