Ask HN: Good rails book that does not use TDD

Posted by hayksaakian on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @03:27AM
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TDD is great and all, but I'm not personally a fan of it. Are there any good alternative books, all the ones I've seen are based on TDD.

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Re:Ask HN: Good rails book that does not use TDD by 1123581321 on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @06:10AM (#4965767)

If you're a beginner, I recommend you use RailsTutorial, Sam Ruby, etc., and just skip over the tests. They're completely orthogonal to the app code so you won't have any issues completing the tutorials.

Later, you can add tests when you're ready for them. I think that once you have to make changes to a production app without breaking anything that currently works, you'll start wanting to use tests.

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Re:Ask HN: Good rails book that does not use TDD by subrat_rout on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @04:01PM (#4967099)

If you are a beginner like me, I agree. TDD looks scary and a huge time sink. But believe me, to stay in this game for a long haul you have to just bite the bullet and learn TDD. Or as OP has said, use RailsTutorial and skip over the tests. Once you are comfortable then you can always come back and add test module slowly, at your own pace.

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Re:Ask HN: Good rails book that does not use TDD by mihn on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @04:36AM (#4965601)

Not fan of TTD? I see your quick demise in this industry...

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Re:Ask HN: Good rails book that does not use TDD by hayksaakian on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @05:44AM (#4965734)

Is there really no viable alternative?

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