Great but Turbolinks 5 and Action Cable (web sockets) are missing
Ruby on Rails Tutorial
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#62Love this tutorial. Michael is one of the best teachers I've encountered. It's such a great tutorial that I hesitate to ask, but I'm not the biggest fan of the Cloud9 IDE stuff that was added in the later versions, though. Anyone else?
The whole "setup your environment" phase is tricky for someone new especially if you're on Windows and probably caused a lot of people to stop reading before they even touched a line of Ruby code.
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#63I am slowly transitioning from Ruby/Rails web dev to Clojure web dev and the process is pretty sweet :) And I don't think there will be any less demand for Rails jobs in the near future, because books/vides like railstutorial exist, to attract the sheep ;) Just kidding, I think such books are great.
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#64Rails is still a thing? Wow thought everyone moved on to Go and Node.js.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also amazing for non-programmer tech people like designers and marketers who want to start building their own side projects.
Hopefully they know Ruby first.
I don't know. I just did a Rails backend. Feel like I couldn't have written more than 100 lines of ruby in the whole thing. Not sure its that important.
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#66Beginner question, having heard rails is not a hot thing anymore and SPAs being the new hot stuff, where do you guys draw the line between a SPA and a server rendered web app? I can see the extreme side cases, the highly interactive web app vs content-heavy-but-not-that interactive web app. But for example, github doesn't have complex interactions and is not content heavy (in the walls of text sense) but its doing ju…
> Would a site like github benefit much from being a SPA instead of being server side rendered with some JS on the top? I don't think so. Perhaps there could be some areas they could make the UI richer (say a dynamic code viewer that doesn't require page refreshes, etc) However, bring it back to the beginning of your comment: > having heard rails is not a hot thing anymore and SPAs being the new hot stuff Github does…
I don't have any feelings myself at all about whether everyone should learn to code, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to remember this anecdote next time someone brings it up.
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#67Love this tutorial. Michael is one of the best teachers I've encountered. It's such a great tutorial that I hesitate to ask, but I'm not the biggest fan of the Cloud9 IDE stuff that was added in the later versions, though. Anyone else?
The whole "setup your environment" phase is tricky for someone new especially if you're on Windows and probably caused a lot of people to stop reading before they even touched a line of Ruby code.
Sadly I think this is true for any environment. Java is a mess. Python is a mess. .Net is a mess.
Way too hard to really get going, but maybe it's an OK patience screener.
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#68I remember reading this when I was first learning web development. Highly recommend this book for anyone learning Ruby on Rails.
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#69I have a career because of this tutorial, highly recommend it
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#70I defy anyone to point me to a more complete treatment of a modern development environment. Hartl's work is ridiculously good. Almost wish I were still using RoR...
I put out a course a few years ago after being dissatisfied with the state of free Rails content http://schneems.com/ut-rails/. I got amazing feedback from those who took it, but while the quality of response was good, my SEO wasn't and so not a lot of people saw it. I never revised the course. The exercises are all out of date (still in Rails 3.2) but most of the videos hold up.