The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
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The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
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Re: The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
#2As a special thank-you to the awesome community here, the main story link above contains a Hacker News–specific code for a 20% discount on Ruby on Rails Tutorial PDF purchases, good for 30 days. Here is the code if you want to use it directly:
hackernews01
Finally, I'd like to announce that, after the Rails 3 ecosystem and book text have fully stabilized, the HTML source of the online version will be available under a Creative Commons license to allow for translation into other languages. Hacker News readers interested in translating the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book should email me at my personal address (available in my HN profile).
Re: The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
#3As a special thank-you to the awesome community here, the main story link above contains a Hacker News–specific code for a 20% discount on Ruby on Rails Tutorial PDF purchases, good for 30 days. Here is the code if you want to use it directly: hackernews01 As noted on the Rails Tutorial site, the online version of the book is still free, and purchasers of the PDF will get unlimited free updates through the final rele…
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Re: The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
#4As a special thank-you to the awesome community here, the main story link above contains a Hacker News–specific code for a 20% discount on Ruby on Rails Tutorial PDF purchases, good for 30 days. Here is the code if you want to use it directly: hackernews01 As noted on the Rails Tutorial site, the online version of the book is still free, and purchasers of the PDF will get unlimited free updates through the final rele…
I recently decided on Ruby as the next language to tackle and my first impressions of the beginners resources available online were not so great. Ruby seemed a little more spammy than other languages when looking for beginners documentation. I did end up finding your book a day or two ago and was VERY impressed. Every single one of my questions I had regarding if I should read on or not was answered in your intro, and the first two chapters have been well written, concise. Thanks a bunch for your hard work!
Re: The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
#5Awesome. I'm very glad that there's a free online version, as well. Oddly, that makes me much more likely to purchase the pdf.
Now, if only Rails 3 were finished.
Re: The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
#6As a special thank-you to the awesome community here, the main story link above contains a Hacker News–specific code for a 20% discount on Ruby on Rails Tutorial PDF purchases, good for 30 days. Here is the code if you want to use it directly: hackernews01 As noted on the Rails Tutorial site, the online version of the book is still free, and purchasers of the PDF will get unlimited free updates through the final rele…
I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but e-junkie is vomiting on the code.
EDIT: No, wait, the discount happens and e-junkie reports that the code is invalid. ;) So I guess it's just a scary false alarm. Might want to fix it though; it nearly scared me away, so count me as an "A" in the informal A/B test of "scary popup/no scary popup".
Re: The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
#7As a special thank-you to the awesome community here, the main story link above contains a Hacker News–specific code for a 20% discount on Ruby on Rails Tutorial PDF purchases, good for 30 days. Here is the code if you want to use it directly: hackernews01 As noted on the Rails Tutorial site, the online version of the book is still free, and purchasers of the PDF will get unlimited free updates through the final rele…
Hey,
I just wanted to say thanks for writing this.
It really made it easy for me to get into rails development.
Anyone who is interested in starting rails should definitely take a look at this.
Can't wait to take a look at the Rails 3 version.
Re: The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
#8Wow, awesome! Especially cool that you're releasing under CC to allow for translation - thanks :)
Re: The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
#9As a special thank-you to the awesome community here, the main story link above contains a Hacker News–specific code for a 20% discount on Ruby on Rails Tutorial PDF purchases, good for 30 days. Here is the code if you want to use it directly: hackernews01 As noted on the Rails Tutorial site, the online version of the book is still free, and purchasers of the PDF will get unlimited free updates through the final rele…
I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but e-junkie is vomiting on the code. EDIT: No, wait, the discount happens and e-junkie reports that the code is invalid. ;) So I guess it's just a scary false alarm. Might want to fix it though; it nearly scared me away, so count me as an "A" in the informal A/B test of "scary popup/no scary popup".
Thanks! That was a snafu. There was no Hacker News code proper, because I accidentally named the discount hackernews01, and then forgot to fill in the code field with the actual code. Happily, despite the scary warning, E-Junkie's default behavior when this happens is to automatically apply any discounts with a missing code field—which in this case was the very discount whose code didn't work!
It's fixed now, and the discount code should work without any frightening JavaScript popups.
By the way, this is why I always monitor the Hacker News comments obsessively whenever I launch something. You guys rock!
Re: The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out
#10Just bought it. I have a feeling this will be a better value than my $1500 Thoughtbot class. :)