From Ruby to Rails
Posted on December 28, 2007
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Well I had to dive in and try Rails. Although Ruby is completely independent of Rails, we live in a web-based world, and as a result you can’t talk Ruby with hearing about Rails.
First impressions, pretty cool. To learn it, you need a damned fine book. I wouldn’t recommend poking around on the web and reading Introduction to Rails types of tutorials. I did this and found it to be too time consuming to find out what I needed. Rails is deep and you need to commit the time it takes to read a book to get a rudimentary understanding of what it is all about. Tutorials can’t do this.
Just like in the Java world, if you wanted to learn about servlets, there was one book you just had to read, Java Servlet Programming by Jason Hunter with Will Crawford. For Rails, it’s Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, et al. I’m taking my time with this and flicking between the PickAxe book (now in the 3rd edition, ahhh just bought the 2nd).
There’s a lot to learn.
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