I just purchased it ... PDF only ... and I'm impressed. I have a
question though. Where is the Rails schedule in relation to the
publishing schedule for the book? Rails is at 1.1.2 right now, by the
time the paper book is ready/beta period ends, where will Rails be? 1.2?
1.9.6?? 2.0?

Dave Thomas wrote:
> ANNOUNCING AGILE WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH RAILS, SECOND EDITION
> ===========================================================
>
> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/
>
>
> Rails has changed a lot since we announced the first edition of the
> book a year ago. DHH says that the 1.1 release "boasts more than 500
> fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors." Who
> are we to disagree?
>
> To celebrate the release of Rails 1.1, we're delighted to announce
> the second edition of Agile Web Development with Rails. This is a
> major update to the original, and we're releasing it as a beta book.
>
> So far, we've rewritten the Depot application chapters.  They now
> illustrate new Rails features such as RJS templates for Ajax support
> and "has_many :through". We've lost the SQL in favor of migrations,
> and even include an rxml example, so we can show off RESTful
> interfaces and "respond_to." It uses the new rake tasks, keeps its
> sessions in the database, and generally tries to follow all the
> latest Rails programming recommendations (including dropping things
> that are likely to become deprecated over time). The testing chapter
> supports transactional fixtures, shows new features, and illustrates
> the new integration testing framework.
>
> Over the coming months, we'll be updating the rest of the book.  The
> Rails core chapters will be revamped to show all the changes to
> ActiveRecord, ActionController, and ActionView. The Web2.0 chapter
> will be rewritten to illustrate RJS; and the deployment chapter
> rewritten to use Capistrano and to show how to set Rails up in
> production. All in all, the book will be significantly updated to
> illustrate all we've learned about writing Rails applications in the
> last year.
>
> All this represents a bunch of totally new content---entirely new
> chapters and largely rewritten old ones.
>
> Today, we're releasing this new edition as a beta book. As with all
> our beta books, you'll be able to download updates as we add new
> content, and then, after we complete the book, continue to download
> changes to this second edition. We anticipate that the book will be
> finished in the fall, at which point the paper copies will ship.
>
> However, we're doing this beta book slightly differently to our
> other ones. Rather than releasing just the new content as it becomes
> available, we're instead releasing a hybrid that mixes the new
> content with that of the original, first edition. That way you'll be
> able to use the beta book as a complete reference that gets updated
> over time. Each chapter is color coded: ones with a gray header are
> from the first edition, while those from the second have a red
> header.
>
> From May 2nd onwards, if you buy the AWDwR PDF, you'll be getting
> the beta book version. If you want the paper book, you'll have the
> choice of buying the first edition now or buying the second edition
> that will ship when it's ready.
>
> If you bought a first edition PDF from us on or after April 1st,
> 2006 (order numbers 27140 and above), you qualify for a free upgrade
> to the beta book. We'll be sending you instructions by email over
> the next few days. (If you have a spam blocker, we suggest
> whitelisting pragprog.com and pragmaticprogrammer.com--you'd be
> amazed how often our PDF download e-mails get bounced.)
>
> Visit the book's page at http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails
> to see samples from the new chapters and check out the changes for
> yourself. Be sure to visit the "in-place upgrade" link to see how the
> process works.
>
> We're really excited to be able to offer the most up-to-date
> information on the amazing Rails framework. If you're a Rails
> developer, we think you'll find this book an invaluable companion.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Dave Thomas
>
>
>

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