How to Build DIGG in Ruby On Rails (Free Book)
I’ve been playing a lot lately with RoR (Ruby on Rails) and of course I love DIGG, hence I was very pleased to stumble upon a very interesting work by Patrick Lenz, which is a definitely cool and enjoyable free book (pdf) on how to build a full blown DIGG in Ruby on Rails from scratch!
I spent a couple of hours reading and trying, and I am already (!) building the app (or should I say building the DIGG) at this point of writing this post. The book uses Web 2.0 approach which covers a lot of Web 2.0 along the way - very cool! I highly recommend it to anybody who has the same passion, since it really is an awesome read!
Please hurry, as this book is only free (since the moment of me writing this) for "32 days, 14 hours, 21 minutes, 49 seconds" more, and I guess will blend in with many other books that we have to pay for once the time is up (currently it is $26.37 at Amazon).
For something "not very free", but "the best" on Ruby on Rails, there is another great book "Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition" that can be obtained, well, same place all other "not very free" books are obtained
here.
It is not in any way an intentional advertisement for any of the links above, I am just so exited reading it, that I could not stop my self from sharing with the rest of the universe!
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October 30th, 2007 at 1:41:04
hey man, I got this book, it’s indeed very awesome, I am with you!
October 30th, 2007 at 1:43:28
Hello,
I have developed PHP sites before. Still do not get this hype about RoR, and in addition:
“Why would you re-build DIGG from scratch!?” This is just silly. Can’t you build something useful?
October 30th, 2007 at 1:44:41
Downloading as we speak
will post my thoughts on it later on… Thx
October 30th, 2007 at 1:46:43
Agile Web Development with Rails was very good.
Does this book cover summ that is not in RoR bible?
Thx
October 30th, 2007 at 1:48:42
you got me going
DIGG is a very wise choice for a sample app to try out
very nice, will see if I can read it all, I really hope I will. Thank you thank you
October 30th, 2007 at 2:01:54
wonder how digg on rails will perform
although they say rails is scalable, I have not seen a very busy rails site⦠YET
October 30th, 2007 at 19:54:50
@Jimmy
Twitter is a large scale RoR implementation. It has had performance issues.
Here is an article and an at length discussion about it.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000838.html
October 30th, 2007 at 22:54:23
[…] saw this one thanks to one of my readers. SitePoint is giving away a free Ruby on Rails book by Patrick Lenz on how to build your own web […]
March 16th, 2008 at 21:11:57
Looks like I missed the free window. I would be interested to see his approach. Is there any way you might be able to send me the PDF?
August 28th, 2008 at 20:06:32
Great topics!
September 29th, 2008 at 5:47:02
How can i find more ROR articles…
September 29th, 2008 at 13:59:36
@Rajesh,
Check this one out: http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1816/top-ruby-on-rails-tutorials
Also there is a good tutorial by “Kevin Skoglund”: http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=324 - you can either pay/donate, or just torrent it out from several trackers. ( sorry Kev, but it’s a free option that is out there
)
Let me know if you need anything else,
– Toly