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That's funny, in the beginning the Rails people used to brag how you only needed one book and would show this picture:

http://i44.tinypic.com/98uhs6.png

Now it looks like they turned into Java?



Not quite the same, in this article pretty much all of the books are teaching Rails. The link you provided shows a different Java technology for each book. You only need one of the books to learn Rails.


I enjoyed the picture but:

Struts cookbook? Well thats not a requirement. There is the RoR cookbook. Add that to the pile.

IF you are making an xml-based external web service I don't care what language you still write the XSLT to give out as a public api. So thats another one to the ruby pile.

Struts in action? There are 2 learn struts books in that pile.

In any case if you think more than a few seconds about that image you will cut down the java side and incraese the ruby side to equalibrium.


That's a great point, I totally remember this. Everyone was like, 'We have scaffolding!'.

Now that I've switched from Django to Rails though, I have to say it is plesently surprising how nice of a framework it is... but from a Django to Rails perspective Rails is annoying to the point Merb has gained a lot of success. Anyways, I digress. Thanks for posting that image, had a good laugh about it.




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