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This is excellent news. Hartl's Rails Tutorial was easily one of the best tutorials for any full-stack framework that I've ever read. Too many tutorials come u
by Cowen 13y ago
This is excellent news. Hartl's Rails Tutorial was easily one of the best tutorials for any full-stack framework that I've ever read.
Too many tutorials come up with overly-simplified examples that have no real utility. I hate looking at a tutorial that shows you how to build a toy app that is barely usable even by its own creator.
But Hartl's book takes you through one very feasible web app (a Twitter clone) while explaining common tools and practices in the process. TDD, Heroku, Git, Bundler, the works. When I finished the book, I showed it to some non-technical friends and we played with it for a while with absolutely no problems. Not once did I have to say "well, this is just a demo."
If you want to learn Rails, you won't find a better place to start than Hartl's Rails tutorial.
- mscarborough 13y agoYes, just to join the echo chamber for a minute. For someone new to Rails, but not to OOP/web dev/sysadmin, Hartl did a really great job on highlighting how to work through the many decisions that are already made for you in Rails, but also some nice Ruby tips. He would also be really good about keeping it up to date and adding errata where needed to fix minor inaccuracies. Totally worth the money, from a guy who learned Ruby/Rails from him and Obie Fernandez's book and struck on independent contracting.
- TylerE 13y agoSomething about it didn't click for me. It all felt very superficial. Sometimes the "rails way" doesn't mesh with the business logic you are required to implement.