Today I released my first book about Ruby

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Post by sr-ruby-dev » Tue, May 18, 2021, 6:52 AM UTC

Today I released my first book about Ruby
leanpub.com

Re: Today I released my first book about Ruby

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Post by sr-ruby-dev » Tue, May 18, 2021, 6:52 AM UTC

Hi, today I released my book, which describes how to build a Ruby application with Roda and Sequel. Almost ten years of working with the Ruby on Rails framework meant that I started looking for an alternative way to build web applications using the Ruby language. This book shows how to build, document, and test a REST API. I invite all fans of the Ruby language. I am curious about your opinion, each one is welcome, even the negative ones :) I created a special coupon code for the hackernews community that gives a 20% discount: https://leanpub.com/rubyonroda/c/hackernews

Re: Today I released my first book about Ruby

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Post by oogway8020 » Tue, May 18, 2021, 12:49 PM UTC

I am a big fan of roda and especially sequel. Both libraries are masterfully developed and maintained by Jeremy Evans. While roda is very nice and offers some features like routing tree, I could live without it, padrino and rails are good too. Value of roda is in amazing stability of the library and great documentation and support from Jeremy. But for me it's the sequel that is irreplaceable. Sequel offers flexibility and code efficiency I haven't seen in any other DB query library. You'll have to pry sequel from my cold dead hands.

I am currently working on a small project that has to use some python libraries because they are just not available in ruby (CAD application). While I can use flask for routing, it's the DB query lib that makes me split it in two, roda+sequel for all front/back end, and passing json only to second part (python flask) that will generate required objects.

Good luck with your book.

Re: Today I released my first book about Ruby

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Post by sr-ruby-dev » Tue, May 18, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

oogway8020 wrote: post #3

I am a big fan of roda and especially sequel. Both libraries are masterfully developed and maintained by Jeremy Evans. While roda is very nice and offers some features like routing tree, I could live without it, padrino and rails are good too. Value of roda is in amazing stability of the library and great documentation and support from Jeremy. But for me it's the sequel that is irreplaceable. Sequel offers flexibilit…

Thank you. I have exactly the same opinion as you. The support that Jeremy provides for Sequel and Roda is irreplaceable. I built few apps with Roda & Sequel, and I'm not sure if I will be back to Rails in the near future.