Playbook Thirty-nine: A guide to shipping interactive web apps with minimal tooling
Playbook Thirty-nine was a collaboration between renowned Ruby on Rails developer Nick Haskins, the mind behind sites such as CG Cookie, Blender Market, Sport Keeper, and Mavenseed. PB39 isn't another book on how to build a Rails app. Instead, it examines four real-life Rails applications and reverse-engineers what makes them tick.
“This is one of the most nicely designed tech books I’ve seen in a long time. ”
Clocking in at 273 pages, PB39 is the second-longest book I’ve published to date. I began typesetting in InDesign before switching to Affinity Publisher—a scrappy new layout tool boasting much higher editing performance for long-form documents. Typesetting PB39 was challenging due to thousands of technical terms and hundreds of lines of inline code. I am already familiar with JS, CSS, and HTML, but in order to do a proper job of editing this book, I had to pick up Ruby as well. This paid dividends, and Playbook Thirty-nine ended up being a huge success.
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Collaborator: Nick Haskins (author)