Today, I decided I will be giving myself about one month to learn something new. And after some careful consideration, I decided to learn Ruby on Rails. As of now, I am absolutely naive about RoR. Never read any blogs/books/docs on RoR.
So I thought it would be a good idea to ask out here, if anyone out there has any useful tips/URLs for me to get started?
Hi, don’t know if a month will be enough but the Rails Guides are an excellent helping hand. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
Joc
Read two books:
DHH’s which just released a new version:
http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Web-Development-Rails-Third/dp/1934356166/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238763328&sr=8-1
Follow that up with a book on just the language (which is free on the web)
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
Good luck!
@Joc, thanks for the link. The guides look pretty good at first look. I will see how it goes.
@Rick, I have actually got myself a book http://www.packtpub.com/building-dynamic-websites-with-ruby-on-rails/book and thanks for your recommendations, they will be helpful.
My plan is to be able to develop a real world app in a month’s time, something like a AJAX powered detailed addressbook and because I am pretty comfortable with MVC frameworks already, it shouldnt be too hard I think.
I personally like fielding my questions to stackoverflow, as here are two questions there the should be for some help.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/636220/when-learning-ruby-on-rails-should-i-focus-on-just-learning-rails-or-learn-assoc
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/129991/should-i-start-with-ruby-or-ruby-on-rails
Also if you can some video tutorials you might check out lynda.com, i think their ruby on rails is a little dated, but should still work for most functionality.
and of course railscasts.com has free quick videos on various topics.
one list video site, it you don’t mind paying is : peepcode.com
hope those help.
O’Reilly’s “The Ruby Programming Language” is an excellent resource on Ruby itself and makes a good accompaniment to Rails development.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516178/
@Geroge, stackoverflow is an excellent resource any given day. Thanks for the 2 links. Video tutorials would be very handy, I will spend some time watching those.
@Criag, thanks man for those links. I will first try to read the book I have first and then get some more if I require.
I will share my journey here on my blog.
Hey Anuj, hope you are well..
Be worth you looking at the Aptana cloud, I have quite a few sites running in ROR on there and it really simplifies the cap script / release methods. Not the cheapest but very stable and gives you dev / staging / production environments!
Also Lynda.com is great for starting out, also many of the ror books are around the web as ebooks if that helps.
See you
Hey Damian, how you doing? Hows it going over in NZ then? All settled now ?
Thanks for your suggestions. I am just trying to find a real world RoR project so I can implement whatever I have learnt till now.