[LRUG] Learning Rails

Thu May 8 05:49:26 PDT 2008

In addition, inheritance.js  ( http://www.twologic.com/projects/inheritance/ 
  ) might be of interest to ruby people - It adds some additional  
functionality and syntactical sugar on top of prototype to allow you  
to use a ruby-ish single-inheritance-with-mixins OO paradigm in js.

I haven't had a chance to play with this yet, but it looks interesting  
- has anyone else had any experience using it, positive or negative?

Cheers,

Tim

On 8 May 2008, at 13:38, Ed Davey wrote:

> Prototype
> ---------
> Just about *on topic* I think on account of the Ruby-ish extensions  
> which it brings to Javascript -- if you're not already using  
> Prototype for your Javascript then you will be seeing it in Rails  
> apps.
>
> I can recommend:
>
> Prototype and  Scriptaculous in Action (http://www.manning.com/ 
> crane3/)
> Dan Webb's article http://www.sitepoint.com/article/painless-javascript-prototype
> Peepcode screencast http://peepcode.com/products/javascript-with-prototypejs
>
> ED
>
>
>
> On 29 Apr 2008, at 12:03, Murray Steele wrote:
>
>> You mentioned that you are a bunch of java / php guys so these  
>> books from the Pragmatic Programmers might be useful:
>>
>> From Java To Ruby: http://pragprog.com/titles/fr_j2r/from-java-to- 
>> ruby
>> Rails for PHP Developers: http://pragprog.com/titles/ndphpr/rails-for-php-developers
>> Rails for Java Developers: http://pragprog.com/titles/fr_r4j/rails-for-java-developers
>>
>> Now, I've not read these, so this is not a recommendation (they  
>> might be awful), just pointing out that they exist.  They might be  
>> a good way to ease the transition as they'll presumably focus on  
>> the stuff you already know and what that looks like in Ruby /  
>> Rails, rather than assuming nothing and staring for scratch.
>>
>> Also worth pointing out is that although the Rails for PHP book is  
>> quite recent, the Rails for Java book is over a year old.  Given  
>> the rate of change in Rails at the moment even the PHP one might be  
>> out of date depending on which version of rails they target.  BTW  
>> this comment probably applies to every rails (not ruby) book out  
>> there at the moment.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Muz
>>
>> 2008/4/29 Tim Harding <tim.harding at gmail.com>:
>> 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> 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.
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