On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Frank Guerino < rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> > Conrad Taylor wrote: > > First, I would highly recommend purchasing the book, "Programming Ruby > > 1.9" because you will need a reasonably good foundation of the > > language of Rails. Second, I would recommend getting the book, "Agile > > Web Development with Rails 3ed" because it includes a step by step > > tutorial and a reference section. In short, you'll have to invest > > some time in finding these and other resources yourself and try to > > show a bit of appreciation when people go out their way to assist you. > > > > Good luck, > > > > -Conrad > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Oct 27, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Frank Guerino > > <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net > > > Hi Conrad, > > Thanks for the references. I'm doing my best to look at as many as I > can. The real issue is there are so many to look into. The reason for > coming here and asking everyone for their opinion on the best references > is for the same reason the Ruby community believes in convention over > coding... Convention comes from other people's experiences and I believe > I'll learn more about the right references to look at, in a few short > conversations on the forum than I will going out and randomly looking > for and reading things on my own. Why waste the time when there are > many brilliant people that have already suffered the same problem. > > As for your comment on showing a bit of appreciation when people go out > of their way to assist, I believe I was truly grateful and thanked those > who helped, as can be witnessed above. If my means of thanking others > doesn't conform to your liking, we can always take that conversation off > line, which I always find far more mature and professional than > criticizing people publicly. After all, we're all just looking for help > or ways of helping others. > > There's no need to take the thread off line because others will learn from the information here. Anyway, I would recommend taking in this information in small digestible chunks. For example, http://guides.rails.info or http://guides.rubyonrails.org will be the most current information on rails because it's kept pretty much in sync with the state of the released Rails API. Next, I would recommend working on self generated projects to enforce the learning of the material. Last but not least, get comfortable with things going wrong and troubleshooting issues. Good luck, -Conrad > My Best, > > Frank > -- > 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 this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
