Simply Rails 2
by Patrick Lenz · first published 2008
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Project-driven Rails tutorial that walks beginners through building an app step by step. It works well for getting from zero to a working prototype, especially with some programming or HTML and CSS experience.
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Provides information on creating Web applications using the latest release of Ruby on Rails.
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…these from amazon. (URLS provided by amazon, not a spam or affiliate link) Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional) (Paperback) http://amzn.com/1590597664 Simply Rails 2 by Patrick Lenz Permalink: http://amzn.com/0980455200 Head First Rails: A learner's companion to Ruby on Rails by David Griffiths Permalink: http://amzn.com/0596515774 Beginning Rails: From Novice to…
on “Ask HN: What books helped you learn Rails?” ↗…http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Second-Facets-Ruby/dp/19... Next I feel Beginning Ruby is a good place to get in depth with Ruby (I'm still getting into this book) http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ruby-Novice-Professional-Sec... Last is Simply Rails 2 which is one big long Rails tutorial and will take you through the process of building a Rails app (it took me about two weekends to work through and has given me rudimentary understand of Rails) http://www.amazon.com/Simply-Rails-2-Patrick-Lenz/dp/0980455...…
on “Ask HN: Learning 2 Hack - For the very first time. With a deadline.” ↗…quality Rails 3 book recommendations but I've come up empty handed. I'm looking for something more along the beginner side of things, but more advanced book recommendations are welcome to. I've read Simply Rails 2 from SitePoint and absolutely loved it, but now I'm looking for something more Rails 3-specific.
on “Ask HN: Rails 3 book recommendations?” ↗For CSS, I learned most from 'CSS Mastery'; For Ruby on Rails, I'd recommend 'Simply Rails 2'. I don't think there's any book that covers everything. Server/hosting wise, I leave everything to Heroku.
on “Ask HN: Review my app: Wappr” ↗…http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/pickaxe/ http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/UsersGuide/rg/ http://qa.poignantguide.net/index.html For RoR guides online, I didn't find anything that I really liked. I ended up with Sitepoint's Simply Rails 2.0 and followed it. I didn't find any free guides/books that really helped me much. Once you get a basic understanding of MVC you can learn a lot of from http://railscasts.com though. PS: Sorry to everyone…
on “Ask HN: Why no love for PHP? ” ↗…work the way they do is a very important part of learning it. I feel particular empathy for you because I absolutely hated the 'Agile Web Development with rails book' too. Here's my suggestion ... Get 'Simply Rails 2' (I'm assuming the project you're working on is in Rails 2 not 3) ... work through it, then move on to 'The Rails Way' by Obie Fernandez. If you're really serious about it, getting through the first…
on “Learning Rails – or not as the case may be” ↗…recently. Here's what took me from zero-to-functional-prototype in 6 weeks. Note: I had a bit* of Python scripting experience, and knew my way around HTML and CSS.* 1. A friend recommended SitePoint's Simply Rails 2. I went through that cover-to-cover, googling for where Rails 3 commands differ from Rails 2. 2. I used an old tutorial for rolling my own user model from scratch (still in the Sitepoint piece): http://www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial…
on “Learning Ruby and Rails, where would you start?” ↗…key concepts. Then I walk through again and program the entire project. I haven't needed to learn a new programming language or framework in a while, but this method has proved to be fairly effective. Simply Rails 2 was the last book I read like this 2 years ago. We are now one of Engine Yard's case studies.
on “Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to end?” ↗…speed) http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/UsersGuide/rg/ (Good reference) http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/pickaxe/ (great reference) Once you have a fair grasp on Ruby, Rails is really very simple. I got my hands on a copy of Sitepoint's Simply Rails 2.0 and went through the first half of it in about 10 hours. If you paid attention to what you were doing you should be able to make your own basic app(which I did at that point). I then went back and finished…
on “Ask YC: Hands on learning options? (javascript, web frameworks)” ↗