On Sep 10, 5:28 am, Guy <guy.isra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to rails but not new to programming. Yet I feel the lack of an > organized environment for development is somewhat hindering my ability > to learn rails thoroughly (3 console windows, text editor with a bunch > of plugins, database editor and viewer, browser window opened and all > this with a lot of data scattered throughout multiple files.. you get > my drift..) ...
Like yourself, I'm relatively new to rails but not new to programming. And, like yourself I had a similar "Is this right?" reaction. The good news is that one can try out these fancy new-fangled online screencasts. (Geezers my age didn't have such resources when we were first learning how to toggle opcodes into the front panel of a PDP-11.) For me, the key benefit of screencasts (e.g. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ ) isn't their technical content (I can get that from a manual.) but rather that one can get the feel/ambiance of the development process and a reasonable sense of how all the various pieces fit together by essentially "looking over the shoulder" of somebody who is already up to speed. The bad news (with regard to your question) is the screencasts do indeed tend to show a whole lot of jumping around between multiple consoles and editors and the like. So, at least given what you've said, your experience sounds fairly typical to me. Dan Nachbar -- 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.
