Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
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Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
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Re: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
#2I have no affiliation with the author, but I'd recommend this book to pretty much anyone trying to learn Rails, I own the second edition.
Before this book I'd never done any real web programming. My background is in compilers and trading systems/machine learning( those two are essentially one in the same), all C++ desktop software.
The book got me up and running, better than any of the online rails tutorials, and there are a lot of rails tutorials online.
One thing I really appreciated was that it didn't just build an app, it actually took you through the steps of deploying on Heroku and using git.
A Lot of other books and tutorials seem to assume you want to build an app and run it as localhost for the rest of its life.
The other nice touch was the chapter that teaches a Rails flavoured Ruby. As someone who had used Ruby for scripting, but never for Rails, I thought this was a nice touch.
Re: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
#3As noted in the announcement, I think this is the best edition yet. I'm planning to monitor the HN comments today, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Re: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
#4I have no affiliation with the author, but I'd recommend this book to pretty much anyone trying to learn Rails, I own the second edition. Before this book I'd never done any real web programming. My background is in compilers and trading systems/machine learning( those two are essentially one in the same), all C++ desktop software. The book got me up and running, better than any of the online rails tutorials, and the…
Thanks!
Re: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
#5I have no affiliation with the author, but I'd recommend this book to pretty much anyone trying to learn Rails, I own the second edition. Before this book I'd never done any real web programming. My background is in compilers and trading systems/machine learning( those two are essentially one in the same), all C++ desktop software. The book got me up and running, better than any of the online rails tutorials, and the…
I also have the second edition and can't praise it enough. I have a computer science degree but never really applied it to actual development as I am a business analyst in my professional life. This book bridged the gap and I quickly became proficient enough in Rails to develop a side project.
Re: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
#6Very encouraging to see tests used more sparingly. I was a novice developer when I first tried this tutorial and found myself lost in the weeds when I tried to follow along with rspec. Understanding the difference between rspec and cucumber probably isn't critical at that point. The tutorial made a lot more sense to me after someone recommended ignoring the tests the first time through.
Re: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
#7I totally agree with chollida1. This is always the first tutorial I point people at.
Is it possible to add "overflow: scroll" to the code sample blocks' CSS? I get a few characters flow down to the next line which is a bit ugly. A couple of examples:
http://draft.railstutorial.org/book/rails_flavored_ruby#code...
first code block here (with a wrapped "g"): http://draft.railstutorial.org/book/rails_flavored_ruby#sec-...
Re: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
#8I totally agree with chollida1. This is always the first tutorial I point people at. Is it possible to add "overflow: scroll" to the code sample blocks' CSS? I get a few characters flow down to the next line which is a bit ugly. A couple of examples: http://draft.railstutorial.org/book/rails_flavored_ruby#code... first code block here (with a wrapped "g"): http://draft.railstutorial.org/book/rails_flavored_ruby#sec-.…
Weird. Those code blocks look fine locally, so that's a bug. Will fix ASAP.
UPDATE: They actually look fine in Chrome, but not in Firefox! I'm digging into it now.
UPDATE 2: Looks like it's working now
Re: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
#9Michael, let me ask two predictable questions.
1. When do you expect to complete the 3rd edition? Seeing as the book is being heavily reworked and knowing your attention to detail, I guess the answer is "when it's ready".
2. Will the Rails version be fixed at 4.1?
Re: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
#10I looks great so far, I'm really excited about the extended auth section. Have you ever given any thought to adding a section on working with/building APIs?