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Ask HN: Best way to learn Ruby on Rails?
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Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn Ruby on Rails?
#12I highly recommend The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez. If you have some background in C++, C, and PHP, this book will suit you well.
However I agree with the other commenters that you should absolutely learn HTML, CSS, and JS first. There's no point digging into Rails until you know these basic technologies...
Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn Ruby on Rails?
#13I'm not being sarcastic I swear, but just do it, your brain will catch up. That's how I learn 99% of any thing I study. I'm not saying reading and soaking in information isn't vital, but practice makes perfect they say.
While I agree with the jist of your comment, I don't think rails is something you can "just do." Navigating the folder structure of a rails project alone requires an explanation..
Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn Ruby on Rails?
#14I highly recommend The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez. If you have some background in C++, C, and PHP, this book will suit you well. However I agree with the other commenters that you should absolutely learn HTML, CSS, and JS first. There's no point digging into Rails until you know these basic technologies...
I do understand HTML, CSS and JS to some extent.
You could take a look at the following a my friend and I (new to Rails) built using Ruby on Rails: http://supernotes.herokuapp.com/ for our school friends in a few days. It's still quite bare, with little JS or AJAX but that's because we're studying for our exams now.
I might have to learn the ruby first too. Seems quite key when i want to build my custom .html.erb pages.
Obie sent me the print version of his book, I'll probably take a look at it. Though in his email he considered it to be "more of an intermediate book".