[LRUG] Learning Rails

[Erin Staniland]

Hi Jeremy,

Another suggestion is to make sure that you have a good understanding  
Ruby as well.

It wasn't until I had a fairly good grasp of Ruby and rubyisms that I  
could see what was Rails and what was Ruby.

This also makes it much easier to understand the Rails internals if  
you ever want to find out what's going wrong...

Erin.

On 29 Apr 2008, at 10:39, Jeremy Hoyland wrote:

> Thanks Anthony,
>
> we don't underestimate the problem -it's just that it's been presented
> to us as a dictat- as has the timescale. So we need try and get up to
> speed quickly, ideally within a couple of months. For the moment  
> some of
> our other work has been turned away to give us time to learn and
> fortunately people seem pretty motivated so we need to make the most  
> of
> that.
>
> Thanks for the reading list, very helpful, I'll pass it on to the rest
> of the team. we have some of the books and will get hold of the  
> others.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 10:30 +0100, Anthony Green wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'd be careful thinking Rails can be learnt 'in short order' or at
>> least
>> without full commitment...
>>
>> here's MY rough guide to essential material
>>
>> Books:
>> -----
>> Ruby on Rails - Dave Thomas
>> Ruby for Rails - David Black
>> The Rails Way - Obie fernadex
>> The Ruby Way - Hal Fulton
>> Advanced Rails - Ediger
>>
>> Podcasts
>> -------
>> Peepcode
>> RailsCasts
>>
>> Blogs
>> -----
>>  numerous but  start with
>> Err The Blog
>> the { buckblogs :here }
>> The Rails Way
>> has_many :through
>>
>>
>> On 29/4/08 09:57, "Jeremy Hoyland" <jeremy.hoyland at incisivemedia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Which brings me to the point -we are a mixed bunch of PHP and Java
>>> developers who now need to learn Ruby & Rails in short order. We've
>> got
>>> the books, played with the tutorials and had a competitive 1 week
>> 'play'
>>> project.
>>
>> --
>> Anthony Green
>> Client Side Developer
>>
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