Full draft of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition, is now available

A full draft of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition, is now available. This draft includes previously unreleased versions of Chapter 10, "User microposts", and Chapter 11, "Following users".

The new edition has eleven chapters, whereas the first edition had twelve, with a bonus Chapter 13 on Rails 3.1. Since the new edition is based on Rails 3.2, the bonus chapter is superfluous, and the new has_secure_password method allowed further consolidation from twelve chapters down to eleven.

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Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition (updated for Rails 3.2)

Michael Hartl’s free has helped a lot of people to learn the voodoo that is Rails and Michael is currently updating his ebook for Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3.2, and of course, the update is still available online for free. This initial release consists of the first five chapters, and each week he plans to release 1–2 additional chapters until the full book is out. You can sign up for the Rails Tutorial News Feed to be notified when new chapters are ready.

The second edition includes many new features:

• Fully updated for Rails 3.2 and Ruby 1.9
• Coverage of the new asset pipeline
• Behavior-driven development (BDD) with Capybara and RSpec
• An introduction to Cucumber for writing client-friendly tests
• Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets with Sass
• Better automated testing with Guard and Spork
• Rolling your own authentication with has_secure_password