<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><div>+1 for Railscasts.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, the "Agile Web Development With Rails" book from Pragmatic Programmers has been kept up-to-date and is still the standard "go-to" reference for learners I think.</div><div><br></div><div>I also can't sing the praises of Ruby Koans enough to get an understanding of Ruby away from Rails. Brilliant, brilliant concept: <a href="http://rubykoans.com/">http://rubykoans.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>On 1 Jun 2011, at 11:53, Paul Campbell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Railscasts are always a good place to start:<br><br>eg. <a href="http://railscasts.com/episodes/265-rails-3-1-overview">http://railscasts.com/episodes/265-rails-3-1-overview</a><br><br>—P<br><br>On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Nick Ludlam <<a href="mailto:nick@recoil.org">nick@recoil.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">'ello elrug,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I've got someone starting at BERG who is going to be diving into Rails for the first time. Since it's been flippin' years since I considered learning it from scratch, I'm a little out of touch. What's the modern equivalent of DHH's epic "Oops" video?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The lovely Tom Stuart, who's sitting behind me, suggested <a href="http://railsforzombies.org/">http://railsforzombies.org/</a> , and <a href="http://ruby.railstutorial.org/">http://ruby.railstutorial.org/</a> also seems good. Does anyone else know of tutorials that aren't horribly dry, and un-fun?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nick<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Chat mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br><br>-- <br><br>Paul Campbell<br><a href="mailto:paul@hypertiny.ie">paul@hypertiny.ie</a><br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br>web http://hypertiny.ie<br>blog http://www.pabcas.com<br>twitter http://www.twitter.com/paulca<br>github http://www.github.com/paulca<br>phone +353 87 914 8162<br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br>_______________________________________________<br>Chat mailing list<br>Chat@lists.lrug.org<br>http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>