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Some free Rails Tutorial screencasts

51 points by mhartl 14y ago

neilkelty 14y ago
You should toss the links you reference into the description of the video (e.g. Your GitHub page).
- mhartl 14y ago
  I'm not sure what you mean. Could you elaborate? Do you mean links in the actual video? I'm relatively new to YouTube uploads, so any assistance would be much appreciated.
  - TheBiv 14y ago
    Once logged in to YouTube, go to "Video Manager" then "edit" there you will see the description. I believe that the individual above was saying that you should include either your personal github link there or any other links that you described in the tutorial so that the user could simply click the link in the description and stay engaged with the video! P.S. your tutorials are amazing, and thank you for taking the time to complete them!
    - mhartl 14y ago
      Thanks. I'll look into it!
mikescar 14y ago
The screencast lessons are great as well...for me well worth the cost. Nice job Michael. I was surprised to see so few video views for these links.
- mhartl 14y ago
  Thanks! The view counts are low because I just announced their release today. Before now, only people who bought the screencasts knew about the links.
cantbecool 14y ago
Michael, thank you for creating Rails Tutorial. Without you, I wouldn't have ever been able to land a development job at a fantastic startup and make me and my family financially secure for the first time in over a decade. I truly appreciate all your hard work constantly iterating and improving Rails Tutorial.
hmart 14y ago
Rails is not beginner friendly anymore. Learning Ruby, rvm, gem, git, bundler, coffeescript, sprockets, spork, SASS etc. is a difficult, dense task. Rails apps are now full of dependencies and configuration (over convention) the "web development that doesn't hurt" slogan isn't actually true. This increasing complexity makes Rails Tutorial more relevant. Thanks Michael Hartl, great work.
- viktorino 14y ago
  The magic is over
- danneu 14y ago
  Web development was never friendly. All the tools you mentioned including Rails are only making it easier and easier. You have to pay the toll somehow. Whether that's the structured , straightforward learning curve of a framework or managing your own delicate menagerie of glue code, dependencies, and ad-hoc anti-patterns. What's hard about web development is that most resources are one-dimensional. You've got your Git 101 and your Javascript 101 and your SQL 101. You understand closures and interactive rebasing and inner joins -- the easy stuff. The hard part is putting it all together and building a workflow out of it. That's why Hartl's tutorial is such a good resource.
rmoriz 14y ago
Excellent tutorials!
janus 14y ago
Hey Michael, Cmd + X selects and removes the current line where your cursor is... but, it overwrites anything you have in the copy buffer
- mhartl 14y ago
  Cool. Good to know.

51 points by mhartl 14y ago

neilkelty 14y ago

You should toss the links you reference into the description of the video (e.g. Your GitHub page).

mhartl 14y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Could you elaborate? Do you mean links in the actual video? I'm relatively new to YouTube uploads, so any assistance would be much appreciated.
- TheBiv 14y ago
  Once logged in to YouTube, go to "Video Manager" then "edit" there you will see the description. I believe that the individual above was saying that you should include either your personal github link there or any other links that you described in the tutorial so that the user could simply click the link in the description and stay engaged with the video! P.S. your tutorials are amazing, and thank you for taking the time to complete them!
  - mhartl 14y ago
    Thanks. I'll look into it!

mikescar 14y ago

The screencast lessons are great as well...for me well worth the cost. Nice job Michael. I was surprised to see so few video views for these links.

mhartl 14y ago
Thanks! The view counts are low because I just announced their release today. Before now, only people who bought the screencasts knew about the links.

cantbecool 14y ago

Michael, thank you for creating Rails Tutorial. Without you, I wouldn't have ever been able to land a development job at a fantastic startup and make me and my family financially secure for the first time in over a decade. I truly appreciate all your hard work constantly iterating and improving Rails Tutorial.

hmart 14y ago

Rails is not beginner friendly anymore. Learning Ruby, rvm, gem, git, bundler, coffeescript, sprockets, spork, SASS etc. is a difficult, dense task. Rails apps are now full of dependencies and configuration (over convention) the "web development that doesn't hurt" slogan isn't actually true. This increasing complexity makes Rails Tutorial more relevant. Thanks Michael Hartl, great work.

viktorino 14y ago
The magic is over
danneu 14y ago
Web development was never friendly. All the tools you mentioned including Rails are only making it easier and easier. You have to pay the toll somehow. Whether that's the structured , straightforward learning curve of a framework or managing your own delicate menagerie of glue code, dependencies, and ad-hoc anti-patterns. What's hard about web development is that most resources are one-dimensional. You've got your Git 101 and your Javascript 101 and your SQL 101. You understand closures and interactive rebasing and inner joins -- the easy stuff. The hard part is putting it all together and building a workflow out of it. That's why Hartl's tutorial is such a good resource.

rmoriz 14y ago

Excellent tutorials!

janus 14y ago

Hey Michael, Cmd + X selects and removes the current line where your cursor is... but, it overwrites anything you have in the copy buffer

mhartl 14y ago
Cool. Good to know.