Guide Review: Practical Rails Projects

Practical Rails Projects is an ideal book for anyone who knows a little bit of Rails and wants to take it a step further. Instead of a "this is a feature, this is how to use it" approach, Practical Rails Projects builds real, step-by-step, working applications to illustrate how to use Rails effectively. Each project is presented in an autonomous section of the book and is devoted to showing you how to best leverage the power of Rails in your own applications.

Though the projects presented in Practical Rails Projects won't necessarily be useful to you in the end (some examples of the projects built are a to-do list manager and church community site), they do serve to illustrate key techniques. For example, the to-do list manager application shows you how to implement authentication and user sign-up and while the to-do list application might be useless to you, the authentication techniques are quite useful. And that's just the beginning. Read our full review for more thoughts.