Rails Beta Book Available
Posted by kheon Thu, 26 May 2005 19:39:00 GMT
The good folks over at The Pragmatic Programmer have released a beta book for the forthcoming Agile Web Development with Rails which is a web framework for my current favorite language, Ruby.
Essentially what they have done is released a pre-release book in PDF format. You pay for it in full now in exchange for getting to download a beta PDF months before the printed book is ready. Once the print book is ready they ship it to you.
This is an awesome concept, especially for the Rails community because while there is quite a bit of documentation on the web, it’s spread out all over the place making it tough to really come up to speed.
I purchased my copy a few hours ago and have my beta PDF downloaded. They are working on a way for those that have purchased this to get updated beta versions as the book matures.
If you are interested in grabbing a copy, swing by here for the necessary details and links.