RailsSpace
by Michael Hartl, Aurelius Prochazka · first published 2007
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Tutorial-style introduction to Rails that builds a working social networking app, so readers finish with reusable skills; suited to people learning Rails from scratch.
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Take a look at RailsSpace, which is an extended tutorial introduction to Rails. As one of the authors, I'm biased, but the Amazon reviews are pretty good: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321480791 N.B. As with virtually all Rails…
on “2 Questions about RoR” ↗I'd also recommend my book, RailsSpace (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321480791), a tutorial introduction to Rails and part of the same Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series as the Ruby & Rails Way books. It's a bit dated in places (damn, Rails…
on “Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start?” ↗…phenomenal. http://railscasts.com/ I went through this book when I was learning Rails. I liked the fact that by the end, I had accomplished a bunch of things that I knew I would use again and again. http://www.amazon.com/RailsSpace-Building-Networking-Addison... For a have on hand reference: http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Way-Addison-Wesley-Professional-... And a good compilation of beginner resources: http://rushi.wordpress.com/2006/09/24/ruby-on-rails/
on “Ask HN: Learning RoR, Books & Tutorials?” ↗Have you ever read Railspace? It might just need an update from someone like you. http://www.amazon.com/RailsSpace-Building-Networking-Addison...
on “Show HN: I'm doing a gem-by-gem guide for social networks in Rails. Feedback?” ↗Really like Michael's clear writing style (remember reading Railsspace back in 07). Thx for this new resource. Also like the fact that he doesn't use many gems, but discusses building stuff from scratch (regarding Railsspace book).
on “New Ruby on Rails Tutorial book-in-progress” ↗1) RailsSpace by Hartl and The Rails Way by Fernandez are the best books out there right now. 2) Right time, right place. Rails came out around the same time the second wave of web startups picked up. Also the argument…
on “2 Questions about RoR” ↗I got RailsSpace from Amazon, steps you through making a social network and teaches you heaps along the way. The final product in the book isn't anything special but that's where YOU come in.
on “Ask YC: Going to RailsConf 2008. How do I learn RoR by then?” ↗RailsSpace is a great learning book. Practical Rails Social Networking Sites is also decent. It uses the RESTful approach which is cool.
on “Great RoR Books?” ↗…process." -- I'd say this is the approach Michael Hartl has taken with Railstutorial.org. Learning the language is important, but it seems to me that, having been through this tutorial and his previous "RailsSpace," the most important stuff I've learned is how a programmer thinks. Programming language tutorials shouldn't be about leaning languages. They should be about something interesting, and you learn the…
on “Rethinking Programming Language Tutorials” ↗…code that builds towards a working product. This way, you get to see the moving parts and the theory. For Rails, Hartl's railstutorial.org is excellent - you build a twitter clone. Their much older book RailsSpace is pretty good too. While you're at it, checkout tryruby.org. 2) After doing 1 above, now pick a project and get building quick. Use the sample code from above and tear it apart. 3) 1 and 2 works really…
on “Ask HN: Master a Language in 1 Month” ↗RailsSpace: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321480791
on “Great RoR Books?” ↗I previously wrote the Rails tutorial RailsSpace, which is now out-of-date but was very well-received in its time (see the Amazon reviews at http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321480791 --- ignoring the ones complaining that it's out-of-date :-). To remedy the…
on “Can you recommend some good RoR books?” ↗What, in your experience is the best way to learn anything new? I'm learning RoR, using Railsspace book. (I'm just taking RoR just as an example, could be anything from programming to cooking) Obviously it would be nice to learn as much as possible in the shortest possible time. I understand that…
on “Ask HN - Best way to pick new skills” ↗This is obvious but bears repeating. I still silently curse every site that makes this mistake. I've done my part to fix it, by the way. Here's the introduction to Section 6.5 in my book RailsSpace: 6.5 Friendly URL forwarding There’s one final flourish we’d like to add to our basic login functionality. One of our pet peeves is when we go to the front page of a site, click on a link for a protected page,…
on “Don't Interrupt Actions When Users Login” ↗Nginx got mentioned in printed books, mostly Ruby on Rails related. I'm proud to say I contributed to this. From RailsSpace (2007), p. 506: Nowadays, it seems that many of the cool kids have switched to a webserver called Nginx, used on its own or as a proxy server. Since much of its documentation is in Russian, Nginx…
on “Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants” ↗