The new Agile Web Dev. book that's in beta covers Rails 2.x. Also, http://guides.rails.info/ is up to date and pretty thorough.
--Jeremy On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:18 PM, gsv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Q) Why did the dinosaurs really become extinct? A) They ate their > young... > > It is such a pity that the BEGINNING learning resources for RoR are > now out of sync with the Applications... Trying to follow the > Linda.com tutorials (which are very well presented for newcomers) and > Agile Web Dev... we run into Rake error (fixed)... mysql default > change to sqllite3 (fixed)... then database must now be created first > (fixed)... then scaffolding issue (fixed)... now pagination... most > common solution use 1.2.6 instead... download (OK)... change spec in > environment.rb (yep no problem)... Whoops Webrick server now not > working... > > Time spent on tutorial so far approx 45 mins... time spent trying to > make up for the... "oh we don't do it that way now... never heard of > legacy before... who cares about people interested enough in the hype > to check us out mentality" 12hours... hmmm something wrong there... > > Oh look daddy... there's a T-Rex... yes honey unfortunately daddy is > too busy building websites with those other languages at the moment to > be be able to spend time watching... > > What will be really interesting is the response to this post... > because for the 1 that speaks up there are 100+ silent... > > For the record... I really want RoR to be the accepted first stop for > Web Development... the possibilities are tremendous... but from the > starting blocks it is NOT a straightforward path... > > So... Does anyone know of a simple, straightforward, BEGINNERS path to > getting started that works with Rails 2+ > > Cheers > > > -- http://jeremymcanally.com/ http://entp.com/ http://omgbloglol.com My books: http://manning.com/mcanally/ http://humblelittlerubybook.com/ (FREE!) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
