I actually recommend strongly against this book. It teaches things new people to Rails, let alone people new to programming, don't need to be messing with so ea

I actually recommend strongly against this book. It teaches things new people to Rails, let alone people new to programming, don't need to be messing with so early on. I'm mainly talking about the use of RSpec and some of the outdated Rails idioms. For myself and a few people I've mentored, Agile Web Development with Rails[0] has yielded much better results. If they follow that up with Eloquent Ruby[1] they will be golden and well ahead of their peers with similar experience. This book single-handedly breeds the "I'm a Rails Programmer!" that write terribly awful Ruby code that we all know and hate. I don't mean to discredit Michael's hard work. Writing and maintaining a book like this is a huge achievement that I'm probably not capable of. I also appreciate that his book is at least bringing people into the Rails ecosystem. I just can't recommend it over others. 0 - https://pragprog.com/book/rails4/agile-web-development-with-rails-4 https://pragprog.com/book/rails4/agile-web-development-with-... 1 - http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Series/dp/0321584104 http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professio...