[Rails] Re: Rails making it tougher for newbies?

2009-03-24 Thread Power One
All advices are really awesome so far! Thank you guys. With your suggestions, I have so far immerse myself into RoR a bit more, messing around with scaffold, and it was an eye opener. Man, scaffold is really making things go fast as if I'm on a super fast jet. LOL. I know scaffold is just

[Rails] Re: Rails making it tougher for newbies?

2009-03-23 Thread Jason Arora
Lots of good advice so far... I would also recommend checking out Railscasts.com. Ryan Bates offers great Rails instructional videos for free. Really, the best way to learn is to just immerse yourself: start building a blog or web application, watch Rails videos everyday, and learn a different

[Rails] Re: Rails making it tougher for newbies?

2009-03-23 Thread GS
I would highly recommend ruby for rails as a starter book followed by The Rails Way for Rails 2.0 as an excellent definitive source on most topics. -gs On Mar 21, 5:12 pm, Power One rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: I'm trying to learn how to use ruby on rails.  Just two weeks ago I'm

[Rails] Re: Rails making it tougher for newbies?

2009-03-22 Thread Bob Martens
I think that in the future we're going to be relying less and less on books in the traditional sense and more and more on up-to-date, community sponsored and updated documentation to handle a lot of what books handle right now ... especially when working with fast-moving web frameworks like

[Rails] Re: Rails making it tougher for newbies?

2009-03-22 Thread Power One
Thank so much for your guides guys! Ruby is so elegant that I'm falling in love with Rails too. It's funny that I heard the hype of rails but didn't bought into it like most people until I saw Ruby's elegant codes. I'm not a programmer but I have learn a little C, Visual Basic, PHP, and

[Rails] Re: Rails making it tougher for newbies?

2009-03-22 Thread MaD
i can recommend this one for a good start: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with-rails-third-edition DHH mentioned that it is completly 2.3 ready. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[Rails] Re: Rails making it tougher for newbies?

2009-03-22 Thread Bob O
This is another really good first rails book. it covers some really core concepts. This will help the other deeper books easier to get into. http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfrails/ I have spent the last year learing and developing in Rails and Zend (php) and i wish i had this book a year

[Rails] Re: Rails making it tougher for newbies?

2009-03-22 Thread Hugh Themm
Hi there, I know it can be frustrating, even for those of us that have been in it for a while. (freezing the environment is a real chore)/ My suggesting is to forgo the print books and go straight to peepcode.com and the pragmatic programmers(http://www.pragprog.com/

[Rails] Re: Rails making it tougher for newbies?

2009-03-21 Thread Eric
Books are very much lagging indicators of the state of Ruby on Rails. The best documentation (for better or worse) is on the web. Start at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ On Mar 21, 3:12 pm, Power One rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: I'm trying to learn how to use ruby on rails.  Just two

[Rails] Re: Rails making it tougher for newbies?

2009-03-21 Thread Phlip
Power One wrote: My question is, how do you go about scaffold in rails 2.1.0? Forget scaffolds. They are just the bait - the teaser. Learn Rails by learning to... - create a model with script/generate - create its migration into a database - write unit tests which force that model to