Ruby and Rails Books, Sites & Blogs
Essential reference books, web sites and blogs to read when building a site with Rails.
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| Buy it on Amazon Programming Ruby, Second Edition |
| Buy it on Amazon Agile Web Development with Rails, Second Edition |
| Buy it on Amazon
CSS: The Definitive Guide
It's not really Ruby or Rails, but if you want your site to work well and look good in modern browsers, CSS is a must. |
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Designing with Web Standards, Second Edition
This book will explain why structured HTML and CSS is a better way to design a site, and while Rails isn't highlighted, Rails partial templates fit right in when you start to think of your page as made up of discrete parts that work together. |
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Rails Framework documentation
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Prototype API documentation
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Gecko Javascript Reference
Not just for Mozilla browsers, this reference covers how a JavaScript interpreter should behave and what features it should support. |
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Gecko DOM Reference
Also not just for Gecko-based browsers, this DOM reference applies to any standards-compliant browser and is essential for working with the DOM from JavaScript. |
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