Latest draft of “Rapid Rails with Hobo” book

New versions as of Feb 7,2010:
Please find the PDF:
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And the Word DOCX:
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Uploaded draft of “Hobo Under the Hood”

These was previously the last 200 pages of “Rapid Rails with Hobo”. As the latter was topping 500 pages, I reorganized and refactored them into two books that can be used as “companion” texts. “Rapid Rails with Hobo” includes the 27 tutorials. “Hobo Under the Hood” drills deeply into the infrastucture of [...]

Uploaded trimmed versions of the “Rapid Rails with Hobo” book

We decided to take the last 200+ pages out (Hobo Under the Hood) and make it a separate document. The new Rapid Rails with Hobo is leaner…
PDF: Beta Version 0.9.8.8
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DOCX: Beta Version 0.9.8.8
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Another Revision of “Rapid Rails with Hobo”

Only minor formatting and edits…
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Revised Installation Instructions for “Rapid Rails for Hobo”

There is now a Ruby 1.9.1 Windows installer available (RC1).  Revised the instructions to start from Ruby 1.9.1 and use the Hobo 1.0 release candidate 2 (0.9.103).
Things are looking good!
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PDF Version:
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PDF Compressed:
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“What is Hobo?” by Tom Locke

This is an excerpt from our new book, “Rapid Rails with Hobo”
Hobo is a software framework that radically reduces the effort required to develop database-driven, interactive web-sites and web-based applications. Strictly speaking it’s more of a “half-framework” — Hobo builds on the amazingly successful Ruby on Rails and that’s where much of the functionality comes [...]

“Rapid Rails with Hobo” Draft #10 with Index

This is the first pass at including a significant index of terms in the book…
MS Word Version:
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Tutorial 21 “Replicating the Look and Feel of a Site” in “Rapid Rails with Hobo” reworked

This tutorial uses a real site, http://nifa.usda.gov, as the target look and feel for a Hobo app called “NIFA Demo”.  Tested with Hobo 0.9.0 and all new screenshots.
http://screencast.com/t/YjFhNGQ0OWEt
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Upgraded Tutorial 17: “The Agile Project Manager”

This tutorial was first implemented in an old version of Hobo.   Started over with Hobo 0.9.0 and added use of the new indexgen feature as well as a new short section on date validation….
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Content locked down for “Rapid Rails with Hobo” book

See pge 468 for Kristian Mandrup’s updated tutorial on exploring Hobo DRYML with his advanced tracing utility.
With that addition all content is now locked down.  Much editing to do and finally and index after that…
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