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Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition
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- kenny_r 14y agoThank you so much for your effort and patience Michael. These video tutorials and the accompanying ebook are amazing resources for beginners.
- mhartl 14y agoGlad to hear it! I really appreciate the support.
- douglasisshiny 14y agoI appreciate the great guide!
- ChemicalScum 14y agoI'm going through your tutorial at the moment and I think it's excellent. Now I'm considering buying the updated screencast. One question though. Is there any possibility for kindle friendly e-book?
- mhartl 14y agoMany Kindles can read PDFs, and the Rails Tutorial book is designed to look good on those. Eventually I may release a mobi format as well, but it's a pain to make, and I find that both mobi and ePub are rotten formats for technical books.
- cocoflunchy 14y agoI'm learning rails with your tutorial too and have to say it's awesome!
- nmondollot 14y agoI decided to switch from php to rails a month ago, and your tutorial was enlightening. You seem to have taken a great deal of time to make the walk-through crystal clear, and I really appreciated it. I felt like I understood every step of the way, with no questions left unanswered. Big thanks from France!
- sunwooz 14y agoI bought the Rails Tutorial book only to find out that there's a free online version and the 2nd edition well on its way. Totally my fault though, should've done more research :/. Otherwise, it's a great book and I'm sure the 2nd edition fixes the compatibility issues.
- mchristoff 14y agoThis is great. Congrads Mike!
- peterjancelis 14y agoI bought the second edition last Friday and have watched videos 1 to 7 last weekend. Really well done, love how the new edition uses Bootstrap!
- desigooner 14y agoThese are great. Does anyone have any similar recommendations for Python / Django? I tried the MIT OCW videos for Python and they're pretty dry.
- fcoury 14y agoAnd, not trying to steal the thread, but I'd love to get some recommendations for Erlang as well.
- nilliams 14y agoI found Kenneth Love's 'Getting Started With Django' series a pretty great start: http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/resources/gigantuan.html http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/resources/gigantuan.html
- eggbrain 14y agoFor those of us who have already gone through the first edition of his tutorials, would anyone have any books they would add that are essential for learning Rails in depth?
- melvinram 14y agoRails Recipes and Advanced Rails Recipes http://pragprog.com/book/rr2/rails-recipes http://pragprog.com/book/rr2/rails-recipes http://pragprog.com/book/fr_arr/advanced-rails-recipes http://pragprog.com/book/fr_arr/advanced-rails-recipes The Advanced Rails Recipes is out of date but the concepts still apply.
- dutchrapley 14y agoThe Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernandez
- rjsamson 14y agoI'll second that. One of the better Rails books I've read.
- scalessec 14y agoFWIW, I also went through the first edition, and now I'm working through the 2nd edition... I'm really impressed with how much stuff has been added and updated. Really good stuff here.
- nateberkopec 14y agoRails Anti-Patterns
- melvinram 14y agoAlso, I've heard good things about Crafting Rails Applications (http://pragprog.com/book/jvrails/crafting-rails-applications http://pragprog.com/book/jvrails/crafting-rails-applications) though I haven't gone through it myself yet.
- JonnieCache 14y agoThe Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596516178.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596516178.do Know the fundamentals.
- btian 14y agoDoes anyone know when the version of screencast on Safari Books will be updated to 2nd edition? UPDATE: sorry I just saw it. It's called "Ruby on Rails LiveLessons (Sneak Peek Video Training), Second Edition". Hopefully they'll update to the final version soon.
- callmevlad 14y agoAnyone know if there is an "upgrade discount" for folks who purchased the 1st edition (physical book and screencasts) about a year ago?
- mhartl 14y agoYes, there is. Check your email for the discount code. If you can't find it, please email me directly (http://railstutorial.org/contact http://railstutorial.org/contact).
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- callmevlad 14y agoAh, never mind, Michael just sent out an email to purchasers of the 1st edition. Thanks Michael!
- rhizome 14y agoFYI: there's an "edit" link for recently-posted comments.
- briandear 14y agoThe smart discount was getting the 40% off coupon when Michael first announced the 2nd Ed. Great bargain!
- Jauny 14y agobought it!
- seanoliver 14y agoThanks for keeping this incredible resource current, Michael. The first edition of your book was what first got me into web development. I'm definitely looking forward to the updated edition!
- bomatson 14y agoJust finished these screencasts last week and enjoyed every second of them! Thanks for helping me get started with Rails, Michael
- muloka 14y agoI've worked through most of the 2nd edition PDF when it first came out though received an email this afternoon stating "I'd also like to note that the latest PDF incorporates lots of improvements (including some big ones) discovered in the course of making the screencasts." Out of curiosity do you have a list of big improvements between the initial 2nd edition PDF and the most up to date release?
- mhartl 14y agoThe biggest thing is a complete elimination of the need for a lambda in the status feed. You can compare http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users?version=3.0#sec:scopes_subselects_and_a_lambda http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users?versi... and http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users#sec:scopes_subselects_and_a_lambda http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users#sec:s... to see the difference.
- jamiecarruthers 14y agoThe bundle was $95 yesterday. I still will be buying it at the weekend though.
- mhartl 14y agoWith the 20% discount it's only $5 more now that it was yesterday. (The coupon code is '2ndEd'.)
- etherealHN 14y agoIn the spirit of HN, where would you go if you wanted to pirate the screencasts (the most recent ones of course, the old ones are all over demonoid)
- etherealHN 14y agoFunny how the attitude of HN users change their mind about content piracy when it's closer to something like what they work on.
- mitsche 14y agoI don’t think the majority of people here condone piracy. It’s the practice of criminalizing people who don’t acquire stuff legally because they either can’t (e.g. the content not being available in their country) or won’t (because the distribution model puts the consumer in a unfavorable position) that rubs people the wrong way.
- mhartl 14y agoIndeed. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4077125 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4077125
- keva161 14y agoIt might be in the spirit of HN but not in the spirit of being decent considering the hardwork that must of gone into this great resource.
- mhartl 14y agoTo understand how hackers see piracy, I suggest reading Eric Raymond's open letter to Chris Dodd: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4155 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4155 Money quote: We engineers do have an actual problem with Hollywood and the music industry, but it’s not the one you probably assume. To be blunt (because there isn’t any nice way to put this) we think Big Entertainment is largely run by liars and thieves who systematically rip off the artists they claim to be protecting with their DRM, then sue their own customers because they’re too stupid to devise an honest way to make money. I’m sure you don’t agree with this judgment, but you need to understand how widespread it is among technologists in order to get why all those claims about “piracy” and lost revenues find us so unsympathetic. It’s bad enough that we feel like our Internet and our computers are under attack, but having laws like SOPA/PIPA/ACTA pushed at us on behalf of a special-interest group we consider no better than gangsters and dimwits makes it much worse. Some of us think the gangsters’ behavior actually justifies piracy. Most of us don’t agree that those two wrongs add up to a right, but I can tell you this: if you make the technologists choose between the big-media gangsters and the content pirates, effectively all of us will side with the content pirates as the lesser of the two evils. Because maybe both sides are stealing on a vast scale, but only one of them doesn’t want to screw with our Internet or cripple our computers. We’d really prefer to oppose both groups, though. Our sympathies in this mess are with the artists being ripped off by both sides. Note that the Rails Tutorial is neither part of Hollywood nor part of the music industry. It is distributed as DRM-free files that don't restrict your freedom in any way. When you make a purchase at railstutorial.org, the proceeds go directly to the "artist" (which in this case happens to be me). As the author of the tutorial, I would of course rather you obtain the files legally. But if you do find an illegal copy, end up learning Rails, and get a high-paying job as a Rails developer, please tell your employer how you learned it. :-)
- russtrpkovski 14y agoCongrats Mike on finishing the 2nd edition!
- jongold 14y agoReally enjoyed the first edition (it was the first thing that got Rails to 'stick' after years of not-really-getting-it and it's my go-to resource for friends who ask about learning Rails); how different is the second edition? Will probably end up buying it anyway but is it a complete rewrite or just some updates?
- mhartl 14y agoThere are lots of updates. I think it's definitely worth getting if you liked the 1st edition. (Full disclosure: I am the author.)