I was a PHP and then Node.js developer for a total of two years before reading Rails Tutorial. I was self-taught all along that journey. Had I started out with

I was a PHP and then Node.js developer for a total of two years before reading Rails Tutorial. I was self-taught all along that journey. Had I started out with this book first, the learning curve would have been so much easier to traverse. I can't speak highly enough about it. Using this as an into to Rails allowed me to become far more productive at what I do, and frankly I owe much of my success over the past two years to what this book instigated. Thanks, Michael!