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I'm a designer/front end developer with no idea where to start learning Ruby/Rails. Would you be able to give any insight on that?

• messel 16y ago
  I just hit google, but I have many more urls bookmarked/instapapered. setup for Mac OS X (not very different for Ubuntu just apt-get rvm) http://pragmaticstudio.com/blog/2010/9/23/install-rails-ruby-mac http://pragmaticstudio.com/blog/2010/9/23/install-rails-ruby... Get started-> http://railstutorial.org/ http://railstutorial.org/ http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts http://ruby.runpaint.org/ http://ruby.runpaint.org/ http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/8/29/rails-3-0-it-s-done http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/8/29/rails-3-0-it-s-done http://railsnotes.com/rails-3/ http://railsnotes.com/rails-3/ Why Rails, interesting anecdote from how 2 pythonistas decided to go rails. http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2010/09/how-two-pythonistas-accidentally-fell.html http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2010/09/how-two-pythonistas-ac...
• cullenking 16y ago
  I find the best way to start learning something new is to identify a fun but simple project that has options for expansion, and start working on it. You want the project to be one that is simple enough to not get discouraged quickly, but that is flexible enough to continue with as you get more proficient. The reason I say find a project like this, is because if you don't have actual problems to solve, you won't know what to read about. You can read about rails routing all you want, but until you have a reason to use rails routing in any sort of complex way (resourceful nested routes, like a user has many photos => /users/1/photos) you can't really do anything with it. Once you have a project and have questions, this is a great way to get help, however, without a project we are all flying in the dark with you :)