There is a screencast by Ryan, he talks about these kinda issues points to use links. <a href="http://railscasts.com/episodes/310-getting-started-with-rails">http://railscasts.com/episodes/310-getting-started-with-rails</a><br>
<br>On Thursday, March 15, 2012, Tom Armitage <<a href="mailto:tom@infovore.org">tom@infovore.org</a>> wrote:<br>> So: I've been using Rails since god, pre 1.0, I think. Not very well,<br>> mind, but a while, nontheless.<br>
><br>> I'm thinking at the moment about where to begin explaining it to new<br>> users (in particular: programmers who are very technically competent,<br>> perhaps with a CS background, but no direct experience of Ruby or<br>
> Rails).<br>><br>> And, looking at Rails 3.2 in 2012... I realise I have no idea where to<br>> begin. A lot of what I've learned is stored as diffs on top of "the<br>> old way of doing things"; it makes sense because I started learning it<br>
> years ago.<br>><br>> But where would you send a competent programmer in 2012 looking to<br>> start from scratch with Rails? My usual recommendation has always been<br>> getting a good grasp on Ruby, perhaps through The Ruby Way or the (at<br>
> the time) excellent Ruby For Rails, which helped me understand the<br>> language loads, though I fear it now may have dated/be irrelevant.<br>><br>> Where, say, would you point as a starting point for testing/BDD in<br>
> Ruby, given "four years of the mailing list and user group" isn't<br>> enough?<br>><br>> I'm curious, because every now and then I look at Rails as an outsider<br>> and roll my eyes a bit...<br>
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