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to be honest, this is a just ok book. For ROR beginners, stick with Micheal's tutorial. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
by JSno 13y ago
to be honest, this is a just ok book. For ROR beginners, stick with Micheal's tutorial. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
- DanielKehoe 13y agoI recommend Michael Hartl's excellent book. For some beginners, "Learn Ruby on Rails" is a good "prequel." Not everyone is ready for Hartl's tutorial, especially if they've had little programming or web development experience.
- will_lam 13y agoInteresting that you mention that as that was going to be the next resource I was going to look into beyond using other supplementary resources like Treehouse and Codecademy.
- sergiotapia 13y agoDisagree, tried to get my brother to learn Rails using this tutorial and got stuck configuring Git and his remote Github repository. It introduces waaaaay too much information that a beginner doesn't really care about. Git repositories, test driven development, etc are all things a beginner doesn't care about and doesn't really need to know about when starting out.
- DanielKehoe 13y agoJust to clarify. My "Learn Ruby on Rails" covers git and GitHub. Readers tell me they like the "time traveler" analog I use to introduce git in a gentle way. My book is for beginners who want to learn real-world Rails, so it covers professional practices including git, user stories, project management, configuration, using APIs, and more.
- rschmitty 13y agoI disagree, git nor TDD are hard to learn and it makes for excellent habits. There is a disconnect if a beginner doesnt understand the importance of both. I can't think of anyone I've taught git to who didnt see how powerful and easy it makes life.
- peterjancelis 13y agoI disagree. The concept of Railstutorial is to show how industrial strength rails programming is done (heck, Michael even adds indices to enforce uniqueness of the database level), so for an absolute beginner it is much better to do some ruby first (Pine's learn to program is best imo) and start with a rails book that does not bombast you with rspec and cucumber.
- cenhyperion 13y agorailstutorial was a great way for me to learn rails, and I had experience with several other languages, git, and knew a bit of ruby. It introduces way too much for a pure beginner who knows little-to-no programming trying to get started. That said, I really don't think someone brand new to coding should learn RoR straight away.