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Great work! How much of the book is useful (probably wrong word choice) if the reader does not know Rails?
I have had several people work through it and stumble at points because the book assumes quite a bit of rails knowledge. At some point I'm going to add content for beginners but that's probably a few months away.
My guess is that an accomplished developer with a few languages under his/her belt might be able to understand and translate aspects of the code. At one point it becomes more opaque and you can't go further without learning Rails. I know nothing about Rails, which means I don't have a real sense of how difficult it might be for someone coming from, say, Python, to read and understand Rails.
Note: This isn't criticism. I am interested in the book but don't work with Rails and don't have the time to dive into learning it. Because of that I am trying to determine if the book would really be useful to me. I am currently working with Python and have good command of probably a dozen or more other languages.