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Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition

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Re: Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition

#31

For those of us who have already gone through the first edition of his tutorials, would anyone have any books they would add that are essential for learning Rails in depth?

The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz)

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596516178.do

Know the fundamentals.

Re: Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition

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I've worked through most of the 2nd edition PDF when it first came out though received an email this afternoon stating "I'd also like to note that the latest PDF incorporates lots of improvements (including some big ones) discovered in the course of making the screencasts." Out of curiosity do you have a list of big improvements between the initial 2nd edition PDF and the most up to date release?

The biggest thing is a complete elimination of the need for a lambda in the status feed. You can compare

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users?versi...

and

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users#sec:s...

to see the difference.

Re: Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition

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Thank you so much for your effort and patience Michael. These video tutorials and the accompanying ebook are amazing resources for beginners.

Glad to hear it! I really appreciate the support.

I decided to switch from php to rails a month ago, and your tutorial was enlightening. You seem to have taken a great deal of time to make the walk-through crystal clear, and I really appreciated it. I felt like I understood every step of the way, with no questions left unanswered. Big thanks from France!

Re: Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition

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For those of us who have already gone through the first edition of his tutorials, would anyone have any books they would add that are essential for learning Rails in depth?

And if you really want to extend your knowledge of Ruby beyond just Rails, I highly recommend The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David Black

http://www.manning.com/black2/

Re: Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition

#40

In the spirit of HN, where would you go if you wanted to pirate the screencasts (the most recent ones of course, the old ones are all over demonoid)

Funny how the attitude of HN users change their mind about content piracy when it's closer to something like what they work on.
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