> Books are great, I would add to your list Tobie Fernandez's The Rails 3 Way.
Just a small correction here: the author is "Obie Fernandez". ~ jf -- John Feminella Principal Consultant, BitsBuilder LI: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnxf SO: http://stackoverflow.com/users/75170/ On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:15, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote: > > On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:06 AM, biofob...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I am a designer guy not a programmer. My coding skills are html, css >> and some jquery tweaks to suit my needs, but i come to a point where i >> think i need to learn a real language. What i'm doing now is working >> with Textpattern or Wordpress(but i dont really like it) when i need >> some dynamic web site. So my question is: is RoR viable for me or is >> to overwhelming. Should I stick to my current situation and be and >> average cms "tweaker" or learn a new language to boost my toolbox? I >> asked this same question on another forum and 90% of the replies where >> to learn PHP and work with wordpress ( but the code ....). >> I have the Learn to Program and the Agile Web Development with Rails >> books and if i go with RoR maybe should i buy also Ruby on Rails 3 >> Tutorial Live Lessons book+video to help me out? >> Please try to be unbiased as possible in the advices :) >> Thanks in advance > > I spent a very long time in PHP-land before committing myself to Rails > full-time. It was definitely a learning experience, but it also made for > some serious un-learning once I entered the world of Rails. > > Books are great, I would add to your list Tobie Fernandez's The Rails 3 Way. > I've heard good things about the online course Rails for Zombies, but I > haven't tried it myself. Definitely do the Rails Tutorial > http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ as that will save you some retraining later. > If you want to buy the book + screencast, that's great, but I got a lot out > of the online course by reading it for free. Test early, test often! > > My sincerest advice to you is to get a little bit comfortable with the > framework, and then try to get a client who needs something done within a > month. I've found that to be an excellent "teacher" as well. > > Oh, and look around for a meetup or RUG in your area. We are lucky in > Philadelphia to have two RUGs and at least a few meetups for functional > programming. YMMV. > > Best of luck, I doubt very much that you will regret it in a year. > > Walter > >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
