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Rails Recipes on its way
After utilising Pragmatic Programmers' Beta Book program a second time, my Rails Recipes book should finally be on its way 'some time next week'. Rails Recipes expands on the Agile Web Development with Rails book, offering a series of 'recipes' for little tricks and methods to use in your Rails apps, such as how to handle in-place AJAX editing or connecting to multiple databases. I've been using the various beta PDFs of the book for a while (when I've actually had time to continue playing with Rails), but it'll be infinitely better once I get the paper copy in my hands. For all the convenience of immediate download and reading of a PDF, I still find it uncomfortable actually reading books on a computer screen. Flicking through a 'real' book is easier for me and I prefer picking up a hard copy when searching for a quick section in a reference book like this, though if I've really lost what I'm after having the PDF provides the best of both worlds with search functionality. Anyway, the book's cool so if you've read the first one and fancy moving up a notch, check out Rails Recipes.