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Re: The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap

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Post by mhartl »

freditup wrote: post #50

I just finished this tutorial yesterday actually. I personally don't care so much about the web design aspect as much as the RoR logic and techniques. Are there any major things in the new version in that department that I should be aware of? Edit: I loved the tutorial by the way - thank you so much for putting the time and effort in to writing it.

Nope, the logic is just the same. So many people requested Bootstrap that I determined the market demand warranted the extra effort. But given your situation and goals, it sounds like there's no need for you to re-do the tutorial.

Re: The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap

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Post by instakill »

joedev wrote: post #25

Developers moaning about Bootstrap have fallen into the common trap of seeing apps through developers' eyes. Please consider that: 1. Almost no one in the world has heard of Bootstrap. Though it's captured our mindshare as developers, most of our users will not know nor care if the app is Bootstrap or not. 2. The vast majority of web apps still will not be Bootstrap apps. Basically none of the general public will say…

This is true. How many people use JQuery UI? Millions. How many regular folk complain that widgets looks similar? None. In fact they appreciate the standardization because there's less cognitive workload for them.

Re: The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap

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Post by apgwoz »

mhartl wrote: post #49
apgwoz wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fair enough, but I still question why a tutorial needs to be rewritten to make use of a different CSS framework. Are there that many people forking this tutorial that they want something cleaner to work with? I just don't get it.

The full "rewrite" took less than two weeks, and much of that was redoing screenshots and mockups (easy, dull work). The motivation for the change was to please readers. Happy readers make for a happy author. Among other things, happy readers buy ebooks and screencasts. For a free online book, the Rails Tutorial makes a surprising amount of money. I'd like to keep that record going with the 2nd edition.

I think I misunderstood this whole thing! The tutorial was rewritten to make use of bootstrap instead of blueprint. Not the rails tutorial site was rewritten to be designed using bootstrap. It all makes sense now.

Re: The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap

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Post by eddie_the_head »

msluyter wrote: post #29

I think this tutorial is a treasure. It's a great introduction to the entire rails ecosystem, including TDD, git, heroku, and the like. I went through the 3.0 version a while ago, but so slowly (as in, a chapter every couple of weeks) that I forgot a lot of it. To those like myself, working through this in your off hours, I recommend keeping Anki (or equivalent) open and adding notes as you go.

And if you do keep notes in Anki, please publish and share[0] them so that others can use them to study from.

[0] http://ankisrs.net/docs/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.html#_how_c...

Re: The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap

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Post by freditup »

mhartl wrote: post #51
freditup wrote: post #50

I just finished this tutorial yesterday actually. I personally don't care so much about the web design aspect as much as the RoR logic and techniques. Are there any major things in the new version in that department that I should be aware of? Edit: I loved the tutorial by the way - thank you so much for putting the time and effort in to writing it.

Nope, the logic is just the same. So many people requested Bootstrap that I determined the market demand warranted the extra effort. But given your situation and goals, it sounds like there's no need for you to re-do the tutorial.

Thanks! Keep up the great work!
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