[LRUG] Learning Rails

[Tim Harding]

and http://railscasts.com/ is wonderful for rails programming in the small.
highly recommend it.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:28 AM, wendy <wendy at skillsmatter.com> wrote:

>  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> <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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