On “Rails Recipes”

Initially I was little skeptical about buying this book: recipes are only “nice tips” or “best practice” that you could find googling… I was wrong.

It’s not simply a book containing a - well organized - series of tips or how-to-do-that examples. Written by Chad Fowler, with contributions from Rails code developers, this book shows all sort of nice facets on rails programming: views, controllers, tests, …

As the author says in introduction: “Good recipe books do teach you techniques”. And I can confirm that: you spend less time in try-and-error cycles and jump right straight to solution… and then you have time to adapt and deeply study this solution.