I just received Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler (I original ordered this book through Amazon back in February). This book is jam packed with 70 recipes covering user interface, database, controller, testing, and big-picture, and email recipes. The recipes that I am most interested in are Converting to Migration-Based Schemas, Make Dumb Data Smart with composed_of(), Cleaning Up Controllers with Postback Actions, Write Code That Writes Code, Automating Development with Your Own Generators, Getting Notified of Unhandled Exceptions, Syndicate Your Site with RSS, and Making Your Own Rails Plugins (I wrote my own recipe on rails plugins).

Rails Recipes picks up where Agile Web Developement with Rails leaves off. I got started with Rails just by reading the first few chapters of Agile Web Development with Rails. Now that I am getting into some more advanced features of the framework I will depend on Rails Recipes. Another book that has been helpful in my rails development has been Ruby in a Nutshell by Ruby’s author Yukihiro Matsumoto. These three books form the holy trinity of Ruby on Rails.

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