[LRUG] On learning Ruby/Rails

Eleanor eleanor at goth-chic.org
Sat Oct 28 03:14:21 PDT 2006


On 23 Oct 2006, at 10:25, Anthony Green wrote:
>> Also, does anyone have any tips regarding "unlearning" all the awful
>> PHP I'm familiar with, especially it's awful OOP mode, which I never
>> really got to grips withl, so I can start afresh with RoR instead?
>
> One of the first ports of call must surely be David A Black's 'Ruby  
> For
> Rails' book.
> I'm re-reading it at the moment (now that I'm actually working  
> within a
> Rails team) and it's a fantastically informative even second-time
> around.

I've been dipping into this since I started working on Rails projects  
and it's both well-written and informative. Hopefully when I've  
finished the systems I'm working on right now I'll even have time to  
read it cover-to-cover :)

Ellie


Eleanor McHugh
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