I should have mentioned that The Ruby Way is also out in a second edition. You'll want the second editions of all three books.
Mike On May 2, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Mike McAulay wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
