Dear RoR'ers, I would like to call in a bit of help from the more experienced members. The situation and question is very simple (as it always is ;)). For the next 20 days I have nothing on my hands except learning RoR, how can I boost my skills in this short amount of time? * which books should I read (can also be ones that are not directly related to RoR) * Should I find a mentor? Where to look? * Would it be wise to start by building a real-world project right-away? What kind? * The most important question: what did I forget to ask?
In order for you to be able to give a decent answer I'll give you some more extra information on me, myself and I. Where do I start? * My programming background is in PHP (but let's not talk about that too much before I make you all sick :p) * suffice to know that I think I know the fundamental building blocks of an application (MVC, OOP, REST, ...) * I already read & marked the first half of Agile web development with Rails (4th edition -> so Rails 3) Where do I want arrive? * In the future I would like to build applications on which I: ** can be proud of ** Rely on enough to sell to SME's Why do I want to invest my time? * I'm already totally convinced of the framework idea. * There are many frameworks, why why RoR? ** I just love the idea of convention over configuration ** I have the impression that people who invested there time in RoR have a passion for their work, they are opinionized and professional. ** Who doesn't want to join that 'crew'? Kind regards, Pj -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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 rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
