[ANN] Rails for Java Developers

Hi folks,

In case you're interested, we've just released a new book from local  
notables
Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland.  "Rails for Java Developers"  
leverages
your knowledge of Java to learn Rails quickly and easily.

There's a review up on infoq.com, and here's the announcement:

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"Rails for Java Developers" by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland is
back from the printers and now shipping.

For details, please visit http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_r4j

If you are a Java programmer, you shouldn't have to start at the very
beginning! You already have deep experience with the design issues
that inspired Rails, and can use this background to quickly learn
Ruby and Rails. But Ruby looks a lot different from Java, and some of
those differences support powerful abstractions that Java lacks.
We'll be your guides to this new, but not strange, territory.

In each chapter, we build a series of parallel examples to
demonstrate some facet of web development. Because the Rails examples
sit next to Java examples, you can start this book in the middle, or
anywhere else you want. You can use the Java version of the code,
plus the analysis, to quickly grok what the Rails version is doing.
We have carefully cross-referenced and indexed the book to facilitate
jumping around as you need to.

Thanks to your background in Java, this one short book can cover a
half-dozen books' worth of ideas:

* Programming Ruby
* Building MVC (Model/View/Controller) Applications
* Unit and Functional Testing
* Security
* Project Automation
* Configuration
* Web Services

Rails for Java Developers is the fast track for Java programmers who
are learning or evaluating Ruby on Rails.

"If you are a Java developer and you want to explore Ruby on Rails,
this is the book to get. Justin and Stu do a masterful job of
revealing the intricacies of Ruby and Ruby on Rails from a Java
developer's perspective. Not only that, this book is extremely well
written, and is a pleasure to read."
       -- David Geary,
          Author of Graphic Java Swing and
          co-author of Core JavaServer Faces


Available now from http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_r4j/

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Coming soon:

* Textmate: Power Editing for the Mac
* Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
* Successful Project Management: Modern, pragmatic techniques that work

Recently released:

* The Definitive ANTLR Reference: Building Domain-Specific Languages  
(Beta)
* GIS for Web Developers: Adding 'Where' to Your Web Applications (Beta)
* Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition
* Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great - #3 Editor's Pick on  
Amazon.com!

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Enjoy, and thanks for your continued support!

Andy and Dave
www.PragmaticProgrammer.com