Any great tutorials on web building app on RoR?
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#2railscasts.com
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#3So Ruby & RoR are two different beasts. If you come from hey-I-already-know-a-web-MVC background, you might skip learning Ruby & directly jump to learning RoR .
If you go RoR way - Michael Hartl's tutorial - http://railstutorial.org/ is probably the best place to start (I did that when I was starting with RoR). Codelearn - www.codelearn.org should be the next best.
Disclaimer: I am the founder of Codelearn
Re: Ask HN: where to learn ruby?
#4Codacademy.com is a good place to start learning Ruby.
For RoR, lynda.com or treehouse tutorials are very good choices.
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#5If you're already familiar with programming and MVC, I'd recommend rails for zombies (http://railsforzombies.org) it gives you a good overview of both Ruby and Rails.
I came from a PHP / CodeIgniter background, I spent a couple of hours with Rails for zombies, and then just started playing around with rails, using http://guides.rubyonrails.org and http://railscasts.com when ever I could't figure something out. And of course, stackoverflow is a great resource.
Re: Ask HN: where to learn ruby?
#6If you're already familiar with programming and MVC, I'd recommend rails for zombies ( http://railsforzombies.org ) it gives you a good overview of both Ruby and Rails. I came from a PHP / CodeIgniter background, I spent a couple of hours with Rails for zombies, and then just started playing around with rails, using http://guides.rubyonrails.org and http://railscasts.com when ever I could't figure something out. And…
Very cool advice. I'm try this out.
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#7Also, give a go to https://www.hnsearch.com/. There are plenty of good topics on this.
Re: Ask HN: where to learn ruby?
#8So Ruby & RoR are two different beasts. If you come from hey-I-already-know-a-web-MVC background, you might skip learning Ruby & directly jump to learning RoR . If you go RoR way - Michael Hartl's tutorial - http://railstutorial.org/ is probably the best place to start (I did that when I was starting with RoR). Codelearn - www.codelearn.org should be the next best. Disclaimer: I am the founder of Codelearn
I just saw that. I def want to go through your tutorials. Very excited to learn ruby
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#9The Pragmatic Programmers book on Rails is very good and already updated for Rails 4. If you get through it and still want more, the Rails Way is the most comprehensive book I've seen. Railscasts is great once you are making apps on your own as it tackles small specific problems.
Don't forget about the official Rails guides themselves, they are actually quite helpful.
I go back and forth on whether learning Ruby first is best. You will learn more about Ruby itself just by solving RoR problems, but I think you would solve them faster if you already had a solid base in Ruby.
Re: Ask HN: where to learn ruby?
#10So Ruby & RoR are two different beasts. If you come from hey-I-already-know-a-web-MVC background, you might skip learning Ruby & directly jump to learning RoR . If you go RoR way - Michael Hartl's tutorial - http://railstutorial.org/ is probably the best place to start (I did that when I was starting with RoR). Codelearn - www.codelearn.org should be the next best. Disclaimer: I am the founder of Codelearn
I just started going through your tutorials and I have to say I agree with you. Really well done.