Thanks, I will have a look at them... Again... For the record... in my short time around the RoR community I have found it to be VERY helpful compared to some others that I could mention... so it seems a land of contrasts to me... Brilliant stuff with "omg who in their right mind would ever do that" right next to it... maybe it isn't but that's first impressions for you... one thing is that it is "interesting" no matter which way you look at it...
Cheers On Nov 17, 4:53 pm, Daniel Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gsv wrote: > > Q) Why did the dinosaurs really become extinct? A) They ate their > > young... > > ... > > 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 > > yeah, it can be frustrating. > I was going to suggest a book, and then I found it was just 1.2. > Rails 1.2+ was stepping stone to 2.x but I guess there are > differences. I came across this:http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails2/ > but I don't know if it is good or not. > > Once you do get on the horse, you can then follow the changelogs > (http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/releases) for each new release, see or > download rails presentations, read blogs like Ryan's Scraps (to name > one) so you can see what's changing. > > Even being on the horse can be frustrating though. I'm not > comfortable with the plugin ecosystem - but I can't justify why. I > don't like all the helper methods that rails provides that create an > extra layer between you and what's going on - but thankfully, they are > just helper methods so you can pick and choose. Rails testing is > brilliant, but you'll find yourself on a treadmill going from TDD (the > default) to BDD (rspec and friends). > > -- > Daniel Bush --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
