As a guy with a systems programming background, I just love how pragmatic the rails community and its texts are. The book I'm going through now includes a chap

As a guy with a systems programming background, I just love how pragmatic the rails community and its texts are. The book I'm going through now includes a chapter on behaviour driven development, an appendix with a crash course in ruby and another appendix with a crash course in DB design. I love the ethos of giving you the 80% you'll need frequently and then telling you where to go find the rest. It's making learning web app development so much easier. Rails guys seem to love getting going fast and it makes it so much more compelling to learn.