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I'm really excited about this 3rd edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, which is a huge update touching every chapter in the book (and adding an all-new chapte

by mhartl 12y ago

I'm really excited about this 3rd edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, which is a huge update touching every chapter in the book (and adding an all-new chapter as well). I'm planning on hanging out at Hacker News for a bit post-launch, so let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to answer them.

comptrol 12y ago
I was at the 10th chapter of the second version of this tutorial. I turned on my pc and it seems it is gone now! Is there any other way than google cache to reach the previous tutorial, which I prefer because of the rspec?
- comptrol 12y ago
  OK, I found it! http://rails-4-0.railstutorial.org/book http://rails-4-0.railstutorial.org/book Thanks for the book.
  - mhartl 12y ago
    Yup, that's it! I make it a policy to keep all the old versions online, as you can see here: https://www.railstutorial.org/#previous-versions https://www.railstutorial.org/#previous-versions
Hacquoil 12y ago
Rails Tutorial (and Railsspace w/ Aurelius) are what I used to learn rails. Your teaching style and practical implementation worked where other resources didn't. Thanks so much for not only releasing this but continually revisiting it and keeping it fresh. It's also super refreshing to see the changes made to the TDD approach in this revision. I run a small community coding programme for people new to programming and whilst we love referring to Rails Tutorial (among other things), the students often get massively disheartened when they have to face the dreaded wall of testing before they can actually produce something tangible. I completely get the merits of TDD, but I definitely favour the 'produce something interesting, get excited about it and then revisit it and understand how it works' approach for newer students.
- mhartl 12y ago
  Thanks for the kind words, and glad you like the new approach!

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I'm really excited about this 3rd edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, which is a huge update touching every chapter in the book (and adding an all-new chapte

by mhartl 12y ago

comptrol 12y ago
I was at the 10th chapter of the second version of this tutorial. I turned on my pc and it seems it is gone now! Is there any other way than google cache to reach the previous tutorial, which I prefer because of the rspec?
- comptrol 12y ago
  OK, I found it! http://rails-4-0.railstutorial.org/book http://rails-4-0.railstutorial.org/book Thanks for the book.
  - mhartl 12y ago
    Yup, that's it! I make it a policy to keep all the old versions online, as you can see here: https://www.railstutorial.org/#previous-versions https://www.railstutorial.org/#previous-versions
Hacquoil 12y ago
Rails Tutorial (and Railsspace w/ Aurelius) are what I used to learn rails. Your teaching style and practical implementation worked where other resources didn't. Thanks so much for not only releasing this but continually revisiting it and keeping it fresh. It's also super refreshing to see the changes made to the TDD approach in this revision. I run a small community coding programme for people new to programming and whilst we love referring to Rails Tutorial (among other things), the students often get massively disheartened when they have to face the dreaded wall of testing before they can actually produce something tangible. I completely get the merits of TDD, but I definitely favour the 'produce something interesting, get excited about it and then revisit it and understand how it works' approach for newer students.
- mhartl 12y ago
  Thanks for the kind words, and glad you like the new approach!