[timobile]

This is a really good book for teaching beginners Ruby on Rails. But, in my opinion, what makes it stand out compared to a lot of other books on this topic is the following:

I'm using Rails for a few years now and I still have problems to figure out where to start when I have to explain it to somebody who doesn't know anything about it.

Many books just throw their readers into a topic. This causes a lot of confusion early on, which will (hopefully) be reduced while reading the book. I don't like that approach very much.

I think, this book here does it the right way: It first explains the web and by which technologies it is driven. Then it tells how Rails fits into the picture.

What I also really like are the short explanations of user stories, software development methodologies and agile methodologies. I think it is important that new developers have at least heard about those topics even though they may not know how to use them in the beginning.

Good work!