+1 for the agile web development with rails book. Also checkout this website http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
The best way to learn any new language or framework is to apply it a real world problem. Start with any project, it can be something you wanted to do since a long time or maybe even try to port some website you've done in PHP to rails. That way you will have an idea of what needs to be done and you can start by asking what do i need to learn get this feature done. This way you are seeing yourself build something real as you are learning. Gautam Pai On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:04 AM, David Chua <zhc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Agis, > > Welcome to the community! > > Don't worry too much about not having a strong enough foundation in Ruby. > > The best way to learn something is to actually practice it. > > Get the Agile book mentioned earlier and just start coding! > > That way you'll know what knowledge you lack and know what you need to > learn. > > Best of luck on your journey and most importantly, have lots of fun! > > David > @davidchua > > On 27 Dec, 2011, at 7:06 AM, "Agis A." <corestudios...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello people! > > This is my first post here and generally the first post I'm making on the > web regarding Ruby or Rails. I come from PHP and especially Joomla. I can't > say I have done some "serious" development till now. I've developed small > projects but never something 'big'. But these last months I'm very > productive and I have a nice idea that I want to develop. So I've searched > a lot and decided to go with Ruby & RoR for getting into serious web > development. I've started learning Ruby 3 days ago using "Beginning Ruby - > From Novice to Professional" by Cooper and I think I'm doing pretty fine > till now (just finished the first part). > > As I'm eager to learn to develop, I'm constantly thinking about when it > will be a good time to start diving into Rails too. I mean, sometimes I can > be patient so I don't want to hurt my Ruby knowledge for rushing too soon > into Rails. On the other hand, I also don't wanna be too slow on this, > cause if I'm to learn Ruby, then when I finish this book I could go on > another one (Matz's book) so I will have a solid understanding of all the > aspects of the language *before* starting with Rails, but this could take > me a lot of time. I just want to do it the "right" way but as Rubyists > believe: "there is more than one way to do it" ;) > > When would you suggest me to start with Rails? I already have basic > knowledge of MVC architecture and classes + objects in Ruby. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/pSVxApT30iIJ. > 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.
