Beta 1.1
B1.1 of Agile Web Development with Rails, 3rd Edition is out. Unless you have an deep interest in the migration function, there isn’t much new content here — the primary focus on this update is addressing the errata and forum comments received to date.
This effort has turned out to be both harder and more rewarding than I would have ever anticipated. Harder in that Rails has changed so much, there has been so much to learn (in terms of Rails 2.0, SQLite3, and also in terms of working with a different publisher, operating system, and toolset). But I can’t begin to express how much I like the beta books program — the readers that this book has attracted so far have been great and their comments, questions, and feedback have been most appreciated.
Also, while this book has always had ample source code provided, I’m continuing to look for ways to both expand and automate. Rerunning the code on rails edge, for example is now something I can repeatedly do in a matter of minutes.