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24 alternatives to I wrote the most comprehensive book on Rails and Hotwire

This book is what I believe to be the most comprehensive resource on Rails and Hotwire in existence. It covers advanced Rails concepts in details and also teaches Turbo Native alongside web concepts. I like to think of it as a spiritual sequel to Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of Ruby on Rails and Hotwire, targeting developers who want to deepen their understanding of both frameworks. It covers advanced Rails concepts alongside Hotwire's web and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I wrote the most comprehensive book on Rails and Hotwire launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1IW

    Hi all! Joe Masilotti here. After 2+ years my book, "Hotwire Native for Rails Developers", is finally available for sale. It contains everything I know about building, shipping, and maintaining iOS and Android apps with Ruby on Rails and Hotwire Native. Always with one simple goal in mind: making it easier for Rails developers to build mobile apps. The book teaches you how to: - Build your first Hotwire Native apps on iOS & Android - Add navigation, modals, and native tab bars - Mix in native screens and components - Send and route push notifications - Ship to physical devices via TestFlight…

    2025 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Automatic Rails Development

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    DHH talks software, evolving Basecamp, and "unicorns"

    2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

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    The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…

    Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN. I am excited to share with you my new book, Bulletproof TLS and PKI. I've worked in this space since the very early days (think SSLv2), always frustrated with the fact that the field is vast but the documentation poor. That first led me to create SSL Labs (which ended up being very popular) and then the first edition of my book (in 2014), where I aimed to cover everything a curious person needed to know about SSL/TLS and PKI. Most importantly, it's a very practical book that you can use to just learn what you need at that moment. The second edition (just out) adds coverage of…

    2022 · feistyduck.com · its alternatives →

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    One of the best practical guides to programming

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    From the creator of Bootsnipp.com, Laravel-tricks, MyMapList.com and more websites. Are you good at building all things back end but […]

    2014 · maxoffsky.com · its alternatives →

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    Probably the best book on platform-based business ecosystems

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    Build interactive Rails apps without writing JavaScript

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    I’m Chris McCord, a programmer with a passion for science and building things. I spend my time crafting the Phoenix Framework, working with …

    2013 · chrismccord.com · its alternatives →

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    Get #ReactiveRails advice from leading industry experts

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    Hey HN, I just wanted to share that after five months of intense work and countless caffeine-fueled writing sessions, "Master Software Architecture: A Pragmatic Guide" is now available. Writing this book was a crazy time. I entirely focused on it, and it took exactly 753 hours of writing, editing, and image editing & resizing(!) until the premiere. Yes, the last one (images) was a killer. If you ever think about writing a book, reserve a lot of time for it unless someone else does it for you. As a result, I am handing you the nearly 400-page book. It is a guide that will help you connect all…

    2024 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →

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    Ebook for building scalable apps with Node

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    Launch of podcasts, API-first, React.js and Heroku

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    Comprehensive guide to choosing a content management system

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    I've been trying to write my "go on rails" framework for years. I never quite got it like I wanted. There is gin and echo and all sorts of other frameworks and patterns but I finally found something I really like: /foo/ /foo/bar/ /foo/bar/more/ That's it. Just three levels and all my controllers get passed in what's between the / with var names first, second, third. In order to really make sure this framework could build something real I made a Hacker News clone. RemoteRenters.com is a HN just for articles about the remote work revolution…

    2023 · remoterenters.com · its alternatives →

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    Building REST API's with Rails

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    "The Bible" of all fundamental algorithms for programming

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    The authoritative resource for learning Go

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    A broad outline of the practice of front-end engineering

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