[LRUG] Learning Rails

[wendy]

And off course Skills Matter runs an excellent Ruby on Rails course, 
authored by Graeme Mathieson:
http://skillsmatter.com/course/ruby-on-rails/ruby-on-rails-workshop
We can provide some mentoring afterwards too, to help you apply newly 
learnt concepts within the context of your specific environment and projects

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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