Rails Recipes is a great resource too: http://pragprog.com/book/rr2/rails-recipes
[]'s --- Felipe Fontoura Eng. de Computação http://www.felipefontoura.com 2011/12/27 Gautam Pai <gomzi....@gmail.com> > +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. > -- 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.
