Very few programming books have been revolutionary to me (OK, maybe it’s just this one. The authors of this book make it easy to understand the way rails works so well as an agile web development framework. Granted, after reading a few pages I had to go buy the Pickaxe book because I was a ruby virgin, but that’s all for the better. This is the kind of book that I would read all over again, just to pick up more.

I can’t wait to read the upcoming version 2 (on Rails 1.1)

Richard White has been working an AJAX based scaffold for Ruby on Rails. He recently released Version 2.2.0. He recently released Version 3.1.2 (oops :)).

Scaffolding is Rails way of simplifying CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) of your model. Although, scaffolding won’t help you create model associations (you have to actually write ruby code for that), it gives you a quick jump start to get you up and running.

Check out the demo at ajaxscaffold.com to see AJAXCRUD.