Pragmatic Bookshelf publishes Agile Web Development with Rails

For Immediate Release

Agile Web Development with Rails

Dallas, TX--Developers the world over are talking about
Ruby on Rails, a new approach to web development that makes it easier than
ever to create rich, sophisticated, and maintainable web applications.
Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Bookshelf,
US $34.95, 0-9766940-0-X) is the first book to cover Rails, and it's
proving to be very popular: the first printing sold out by the time it hit
the streets.

Using this book, readers will:

-Follow along with an extended tutorial as we write a web-based store
 application
-Learn how Rails eliminates tedious configuration and application
 knitting
-Understand how to use Rails' code generators to create working
 prototypes within minutes, and how to build on that code to refine the
 functionality incrementally
-See how to include technologies such as AJAX, web services, and e-mail
 handling into their code
-Test their applications as they write them using the built-in unit and
 functional testing frameworks
-Deploy applications into an unfriendly, demanding world

Beginners and experts alike will keep coming back to this book while
developing and deploying their Rails applications.

The book was written by leaders in the field: As one of the authors of The
Agile Manifesto, Dave Thomas understands agility. As the author of
Programming Ruby he understands Ruby and how to describe writing Ruby
applications. David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of the Rails
framework. Leon Breedt wrote the web services component of Rails. Mike
Clark is an international expert on testing techniques. Thomas Fuchs
contributed much of the AJAX support for Rails. Andreas Schwarz wrote the
online manual on security for Rails. This is the dream team for writing
not just the first Rails book, but the definitive Rails book.

Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide
by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark,
Thomas Fuchs, and Andreas Schwarz
ISBN 0-9766940-0-X, 570 pages, $34.95 US, $48.95 CA, softcover.
Pragmatic Bookshelf titles are distributed to bookstores internationally
by O'Reilly Media.

Additional Resources:

Sample chapters, table of contents, and more information is available at:
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/press_releases/rails.html

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