[ajug-members] Can anyone recommend a book for learning Ruby on Rails?

[Rick]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Dewberry, Jim <jdewberry at connecture.com> wrote:

> Struts is tedious.  Can anyone recommend a book for learning Ruby on Rails?

In a way that's like saying "Getting to work in a Ford is tedious, let
me try a motorcyle or boat." Have you tried driving a Chevy, Mercedes,
or Toyota? I'm all for the jump to trying RoR (which I'm doing myself
on my own time) but to complain about just 'one' Java framework and
abandon Java frameworks all together is a bit silly.

If your comfortable with Java and want a super easy to use framework,
I recommend Stripes
http://www.stripesframework.org/display/stripes/Home

I've worked with a lot of Java frameworks in Java and most seem way
overly complicated so I prefer the simplicity of Stripes. I'm only
lukewarm on Grails. (Grails uses a hodgepodge of Java technologies
under-the-hood which isn't necessarily a bad thing but they aren't
always the best. For example Grails uses Spring to handle request
parameter binding which sucks in my opinion when it comes to dealing
with nested form elements in request scope.  In contrast, Stripes
handles it beautifully. )

If you are interested in RoR, I'm finding the beginning lessons here
fairly decent http://www.buildingwebapps.com/podcasts  (You'll have to
learn Ruby as well of course.)

-- 
Rick