I just started Agile last night, and it seems good. Head First Rails was really good in getting me interested and not overwhelming me. Does Agile cover details about tests? I don't really understand how they work/how you build them, etc, and I can't look them up...
On Oct 1, 3:30 am, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/30 Zak Strassberg <moomoothe...@gmail.com>: > > > > > When I told some web developer friends that I was going to try to > > learn Rails while taking a year off before college (when I would have > > very little internet), they were a little concerned, saying that it > > was almost essential to get advice from more experienced developers to > > really understand the nuances of the language. > > If you are trying to learn with only limited internet access then I > would suggest that using books would be the way to start. Get Agile > Web Development with Rails, 3rd Edition, and the Ruby pickaxe book, > Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide. Working through > those should keep you happy for a few weeks. > > Even so it will be difficult without google. > > > > > > > I have set this google group up to send me emails which I can retrieve > > on the boat, so hopefully I will be able to learn with your help. > > > Anyways, I have a few questions. > > > I am making a very simple forum as my first real project (one done > > without a tutorial in a book). I have read Head First Rails by > > O'Reilly (which was very helpful), and I think I can do it. However, > > the database organization is what I'm not sure about. > > > How should I organize threads, posts, users, and options? > > > I think that threads and posts I can make a relationship between, and > > use "thread_id" in the posts table to show which posts belong to which > > threads. However, this seems like the table will get huge very > > quickly. On the other hand, I don't think that each thread needs it's > > own posts table. What do you recommend? > > > Similarly, should a user's options be in the users table, or should > > options have its own table which connects via a relationship between > > user id and user_id in the options table? > > > Finally, how should I store global forum settings like default posts > > per page and stuff like that? > > By the time you have worked through the books you may be able to > answer some of these yourself. Also during the learning exercise it > is not too important how you design stuff. You will learn much by > coding and re-coding as you realise there are better ways of > organising it. Don't forget to write tests as you go (or before you > go) so that as you refactor the code with your new ideas you can be > confident it continues to work. > > Use a version control system (git probably or svn) for your work. > This makes it much easier to remember what you have done, backtrack > out of blind alleys and so on. > > Good luck > > Colin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
