Q) Why did the dinosaurs really become extinct? A) They ate their young...
It is such a pity that the BEGINNING learning resources for RoR are now out of sync with the Applications... Trying to follow the Linda.com tutorials (which are very well presented for newcomers) and Agile Web Dev... we run into Rake error (fixed)... mysql default change to sqllite3 (fixed)... then database must now be created first (fixed)... then scaffolding issue (fixed)... now pagination... most common solution use 1.2.6 instead... download (OK)... change spec in environment.rb (yep no problem)... Whoops Webrick server now not working... Time spent on tutorial so far approx 45 mins... time spent trying to make up for the... "oh we don't do it that way now... never heard of legacy before... who cares about people interested enough in the hype to check us out mentality" 12hours... hmmm something wrong there... Oh look daddy... there's a T-Rex... yes honey unfortunately daddy is too busy building websites with those other languages at the moment to be be able to spend time watching... What will be really interesting is the response to this post... because for the 1 that speaks up there are 100+ silent... For the record... I really want RoR to be the accepted first stop for Web Development... the possibilities are tremendous... but from the starting blocks it is NOT a straightforward path... So... Does anyone know of a simple, straightforward, BEGINNERS path to getting started that works with Rails 2+ Cheers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
