Tarek - I went through what you're about to go through and actually enjoyed the process :) I hadn't programmed anything for 12 years
Buy the Ruby Pickaxe book. Buy Agile Web Development with Rails (wait for next edition) Find a hosting company that supports RoR if you need hosting. Use mod_rails to deploy. It took me a few iterations to understand the whole Model-View- Controller idea. I know zero about HTTP, DHTML, XML, DOM I know a very, very little about Javascript You need to start understanding CSS at some point but it comes later and as you need it, I found. Work hard to understand Ruby. And just abandon the for loop as quickly as you can. The learning curve was steep for me but it's fun to learn new stuff. Here's what I managed to produce and I started in February 2008. I'm just starting to experiment with some of the Ajax stuff. http://www.assetcorrelation.com On Nov 1, 10:44 am, Tarek Demiati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I’m very interested in starting with ROR, however I do not know where > to start, I’ve a background as a developer of desktop application, the > web is new to me, there seems to be a lot of things to master in order > to become an efficient ROR developer, So I’m a bit confuse on what > should I learn first : HTTP,DHTML,XML,DOM,Javascript, CSS and then > Ruby on Rails ? > > I’m aware that ROR does many of the low level dirty work for you, so > it hides the complexity from you > > So my questions are : > > 1/ Do you think someone can be a good ROR developer without mastering > the following technologies : HTTP,DHTML,XML,DOM,Javascript, CSS > > 2/ Which books would you advise me to read (ideally in chronological > order) > > 3/ Does the learning curve can be pretty steep for someone who do not > come from a web development culture (ie : Java/J2EE) > > 4/ I would also appreciate book recommendations for : > HTTP,DHTML,XML,DOM,Javascript, CSS, Ruby, Rails > > Best Regards from France, > Tarek Demiati --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
