I’m going to begin a series of posts on my journey to learn Ruby On Rails. My professional experience has been primarily as a C++, Java, and C# programmer. I’m totally new to Ruby the language, and the Rails framework.
I have read and created the sample application described in the following tutorials by Curt Hibbs on Oreilly’s OnLamp site:
Very nice job with these tutorials Curt, I think they are a great introduction to Ruby on Rails!
I really enjoyed the book The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by the Pragmatic Programmers, so I went ahead and ordered the following
I’ve found that I don’t really learn a programming language or new framework until I try and apply it to a real world problem. So, what I’ll be doing is creating a simple public web application that will be modified in sync with my blog posts.
What I was thinking of creating would ultimately be an AJAX style web application that would allow users to enter in url’s to Ruby or Rails tutorials, tag and rate them.
The web application probably won’t be useful for anything else except as a complement to this blog post series, but I think it would be very useful for someone else with a similar background to me to be able to read through my posts, and follow along and see the web application develop.
A good friend of mine, Pete, had a cool idea; he suggested that along with the public web application, I should publish a page with the results of the rake stats output, so the total lines of code in the application are available at a published url.
What I’m looking for help with right now is any Ruby or Rails tips or links to good tutorials that people would be able to share by commenting on this post. What I think would be cool as the application develops would be to review any comments posted for suggestions as to better ways to approach what I’m doing in the application or what new features we could add to the application to show off Ruby On Rails.
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