If you learn well from books, there are some great ones for Ruby/ Rails. My twist on the canonical answer to your question is:
1) Buy and read Programming Ruby 2e and The Ruby Way. Read them in that order, and type in lots of code as you go. 2) Buy and read Agile Web Development For Rails 2e. Build the sample app as you read. The rest of your questions are good but I think if you do the above you'll be well equipped to pick your own path forward. Also, IRC channel +1 (although I haven't been spending much time there lately). Mike On May 2, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Bob Lehman wrote: > What is the best way to get started with rails/ruby? > > My current ruby plan > - Switch all scripting assignments at work to it that I can get > away with -:). Probably have to use Jruby on HP. > So the question here is the question. Has anyone got the HP > UX-11 port working ? If so what is the performance like? > I have jruby running, but it is a bit sluggish. > > My Rails plan > - Building simple contacts application > > How do you figure out what the best technology stack to use. I see > all the following stuff and get kind of glazed over. > Ruby > Rails > MasterView > RJS > Hobo > ActiveState > ActiveRecord > Migrations > SexyMigrations > > What editing tools to use > Editors > Scite > UltraEdit > Others? > IDE's > Netbeans > Aptana - RADRails > To give some context to the question above. > > I work for a company called PTC - they build big CAD tools and > enterprise collaboration tools. I tend to work on the grungier > parts of it - DB, System, Integration. Our tool set is not very > good and I want to remedy that - at least for the project I am on. > > In pure ruby I am going to build some system admin type tools. I > could use nagios, hobbit or something else along that line, but I > kind of want the excuse to write the scripts. I found one system > admin tool written in ruby, but it looked like a commercial > offering. But if there is something I would be happy to hack > around with it as a starting point. Otherwise it seems like a good > exuse to write networking, parsing and system code. > > - On each deployed machine > - Process monitoring > - Up > - Down > - Mem Usage > - Start/Stop/restart > - Log file parsing > - disk monitor > - internal application statics - internal queue monitoring > > In rails I want to build some simple apps to > - Contact Manager > - link to mapping tool via address > - Asset manager - help with all the hardware we have > scattered about > - Name > - Location > - Address > ... > Both pretty simple master detail(s) applications. I would like to > put a pretty front end on and build up the knowledge of the tools > > Once I become more proficient I would probably write a nice webbish > front end to the system admin tools. > > So please feel free to comment on any of this - I am currently a > sponge (no sponge Bob jokes please) with the hopes of becoming a > contributor someday. > > --Bob > > <blehman12.vcf> > _______________________________________________ > PDXRuby mailing list > [email protected] > IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net > http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
