If you are more of a "watching/listening" follow-along learner than a "reading" oriented one, there are some extremely useful screencast/ podcast resources that you may want to plug in to (some free, some for a modest cost):
http://peepcode.com/ has a selection of screencasts and PDFs over an ever-increasing set of topics ($9/each) Ryan Bates' Railscasts (http://railscasts.com/ and iTunes, free) are an excellent source of free, very focused screencasts on one technical topic per episode Our own LearningRails.com course (free, iTunes and http://LearningRails.com/), is a gentle, step by step "class" where we build a _very_ simple CMS- like app, showing all the behind the scenes nitty-gritty. We provide linked show notes and articles from BuildingWebApps.com that go from tool installation, Rails programming, testing, and deployment. Some of the older episodes need a Rails 2.1+ tune-up, but the comments contain the important pointers. The Pragmatic Programmer's new screencast series (http:// pragprog.com/, small fee), has several Rails and Ruby oriented products. The RailsEnvy screencasts (as well as Gregg and Jason's news oriented podcast, http://railsenvy.com, small fee on screencasts), are an entertaining resource that discusses the latest and greatest in RoR. Basically, there is a wealth of non-book resources, so worth at least book-marking as you learn. Good luck, -Christopher On Nov 2, 5:14 pm, glennswest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It depends on "what" you have interest in doing. > > For my applications, there database focused. > > So here is the "getting" something going in the shortest possible > time. > > 1. Get the "Ruby Cookbook fro Oreilly". (Keep on your desk) > 2. ProActive Record is another one I would keep handy. > 3. Choose a project. > 4. Use the following plugins: > a. ActiveScaffold > b. Tabnav/Widgets > 5. Use sqlite to start. (I used oracle to start, but I work in a > enterprise) > 6. Start your app. > > The lovely part of using activescaffold, is its highly customizable. > So you can go > far not "writing" any dhtml/xml/dom/css. Yes your have a "enterprisey" > looking app, > but your have it in short order. I've done apps with 20-30 tables, > write a conversion script > to import the data, write a generator script to generate controllers > and models, and had > it up and running and usable in 4 days. > > It all depends on the "type" of applications you want to do. > > You might want to look at mentalpagingspace.blogspot.com > lots of experience I've gained in using ruby and rails for large > scale corp applications. > > At this point I feel I can do anything from a Stock trading > applications to a MRP/ERP system > using ruby on rails. (And can do it in windows or linux). > > On Nov 2, 1:44 am, Tarek Demiati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I’m very interested in starting with ROR, however I do not know where > > to start, I’ve a background as a developer of desktop application, the > > web is new to me, there seems to be a lot of things to master in order > > to become an efficient ROR developer, So I’m a bit confuse on what > > should I learn first : HTTP,DHTML,XML,DOM,Javascript, CSS and then > > Ruby on Rails ? > > > I’m aware that ROR does many of the low level dirty work for you, so > > it hides the complexity from you > > > So my questions are : > > > 1/ Do you think someone can be a good ROR developer without mastering > > the following technologies : HTTP,DHTML,XML,DOM,Javascript, CSS > > > 2/ Which books would you advise me to read (ideally in chronological > > order) > > > 3/ Does the learning curve can be pretty steep for someone who do not > > come from a web development culture (ie : Java/J2EE) > > > 4/ I would also appreciate book recommendations for : > > HTTP,DHTML,XML,DOM,Javascript, CSS, Ruby, Rails > > > Best Regards from France, > > Tarek Demiati --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
