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Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book https://www.railstut

Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book https://www.railstutorial.org/book

kenforthewin 7y ago
My choice as well. I'd also highlight http://railscasts.com/ http://railscasts.com/ as a great supplement.
crimsonalucard 7y ago
Rails is modern? Seriously I thought it has a lot of baggage like django does towards the old way of rendering web pages on the backend. If it's not true please correct me and elucidate.
- cferr 7y ago
  Rails is modern. People still develop with it. Something like Perl and its frameworks would not be considered modern, probably.
vinceguidry 7y ago
I tried a few times to give the rails tutorial to rank beginners and they couldn't get from power user to programmer without major hand holding or sheer maddening drive. The learning curve is still too steep.
ben_jones 7y ago
This book got me into the tech industry. Not because it taught be Rails, but because it showed me that I was capable of building features that seemed difficult and complex with relative ease as long as I approached it with the right methodology and determination.
mmartinson 7y ago
I haven't looked at it since 2014, but this + codecademy took me from pedestrian interest in programming to writing prototypes
phaus 7y ago
As a beginner trying to learn to program a long time ago, rails was possibly the worst resource I attempted to use. You follow a complicated, tutorial to set everything up so you can actually start. Then you type a few words and then a bunch of complicated looking files are generated automatically in a way that it's hard for a beginner to even know what sections he's supposed to be able to understand. Maybe it clicks for some, but I had a better time starting with HTML/CSS and then learning JavaScript before moving on to Python.
- i_call_solo 7y ago
  Nobody would recommend learning rails without a decent understanding of html, css and javascript.
- mhartl 7y ago
  We realized the same thing—the Rails Tutorial is a little too advanced for complete beginners, so we created seven more beginner tutorials that work step by step to teach the prerequisites for full-stack web development. More info on the courses is available here: https://www.learnenough.com https://www.learnenough.com
  - phaus 7y ago
    Thanks for the response. Its great to see there's a more gradual way to get into the Rails tutorial now. I am aware that your original tutorial was probably not aimed at a complete beginner with no experience at all, but I was basing my comment off of the thread title which is "favorite tutorial for total beginners." I know your tutorial is considered by most to be great, I was just sharing my experience as someone that attempted to go from absolute zero to the Rails tutorial long ago. I hope I didn't seem like I was putting it down in general. I mostly work with Python scripting and Jupyter notebooks, but I've been wanting to get back into web development for personal projects. I'll check out the new courses.
    - mhartl 7y ago
      No worries! Great to hear your perspective.
mhartl 7y ago
Thanks! Glad you liked it. For total beginners, Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous may be an even better place to start. https://www.learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial https://www.learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial That tutorial is part of a series that takes you from beginner all the way to the Rails Tutorial. You can see the full sequence at https://www.learnenough.com/ https://www.learnenough.com/.
orky56 7y ago
I was up and running very fast using OneMonth Rails. It oversimplified some things but ensured I had a running app pretty quickly. It got me over the hurdle of being stuck in books and videos and instead had me tweaking something I could be proud of.
Legogris 7y ago
10+ years ago I also found great joy in Why's Poignant Guide To Ruby (https://poignant.guide/ https://poignant.guide/)
- shyrka 7y ago
  My favourite.

Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book https://www.railstutorial.org/book

kenforthewin 7y ago

My choice as well. I'd also highlight http://railscasts.com/ http://railscasts.com/ as a great supplement.

crimsonalucard 7y ago

Rails is modern? Seriously I thought it has a lot of baggage like django does towards the old way of rendering web pages on the backend. If it's not true please correct me and elucidate.

cferr 7y ago
Rails is modern. People still develop with it. Something like Perl and its frameworks would not be considered modern, probably.

vinceguidry 7y ago

I tried a few times to give the rails tutorial to rank beginners and they couldn't get from power user to programmer without major hand holding or sheer maddening drive. The learning curve is still too steep.

ben_jones 7y ago

This book got me into the tech industry. Not because it taught be Rails, but because it showed me that I was capable of building features that seemed difficult and complex with relative ease as long as I approached it with the right methodology and determination.

mmartinson 7y ago

I haven't looked at it since 2014, but this + codecademy took me from pedestrian interest in programming to writing prototypes

phaus 7y ago

As a beginner trying to learn to program a long time ago, rails was possibly the worst resource I attempted to use. You follow a complicated, tutorial to set everything up so you can actually start. Then you type a few words and then a bunch of complicated looking files are generated automatically in a way that it's hard for a beginner to even know what sections he's supposed to be able to understand. Maybe it clicks for some, but I had a better time starting with HTML/CSS and then learning JavaScript before moving on to Python.

i_call_solo 7y ago
Nobody would recommend learning rails without a decent understanding of html, css and javascript.
mhartl 7y ago
We realized the same thing—the Rails Tutorial is a little too advanced for complete beginners, so we created seven more beginner tutorials that work step by step to teach the prerequisites for full-stack web development. More info on the courses is available here: https://www.learnenough.com https://www.learnenough.com
- phaus 7y ago
  Thanks for the response. Its great to see there's a more gradual way to get into the Rails tutorial now. I am aware that your original tutorial was probably not aimed at a complete beginner with no experience at all, but I was basing my comment off of the thread title which is "favorite tutorial for total beginners." I know your tutorial is considered by most to be great, I was just sharing my experience as someone that attempted to go from absolute zero to the Rails tutorial long ago. I hope I didn't seem like I was putting it down in general. I mostly work with Python scripting and Jupyter notebooks, but I've been wanting to get back into web development for personal projects. I'll check out the new courses.
  - mhartl 7y ago
    No worries! Great to hear your perspective.

mhartl 7y ago

Thanks! Glad you liked it. For total beginners, Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous may be an even better place to start. https://www.learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial https://www.learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial That tutorial is part of a series that takes you from beginner all the way to the Rails Tutorial. You can see the full sequence at https://www.learnenough.com/ https://www.learnenough.com/.

orky56 7y ago

I was up and running very fast using OneMonth Rails. It oversimplified some things but ensured I had a running app pretty quickly. It got me over the hurdle of being stuck in books and videos and instead had me tweaking something I could be proud of.

Legogris 7y ago

10+ years ago I also found great joy in Why's Poignant Guide To Ruby (https://poignant.guide/ https://poignant.guide/)

shyrka 7y ago
My favourite.