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I also recommend learning Ruby before Rails. I tried it the other way and was often very confused as to why something would work or not because Ruby and Rails b
by LeBlanc 16y ago
I also recommend learning Ruby before Rails. I tried it the other way and was often very confused as to why something would work or not because Ruby and Rails both do a lot of things that seem like magic to a new user.
Plus, hacking in Ruby can be a lot of fun. There are a lot of really neat tricks you can use to do really cool things.
- pedalpete 16y agoWhen I told a friend I was giving up on Rails and explained why, he also recommended learning Ruby alone. I didn't understand why until he explained " the caller doesn't have to use curly braces to signify a hash if the hash is the last argument in the call. For methods that only take a single hash as an argument, this is pretty easy to understand. " This resolved a huge issue I was having with my Ruby, but I find this to be a really poor way to write a language. Maybe it will just take more getting used to. We hear people say that English is so difficult to learn because of these 'rules and exceptions', so maybe I just need to get that mentality and realize that just because something worked in one instance, it won't in another. I will spend more time focusing on learning Ruby. i was always thinking the problems I was having was due to rails.