gsv wrote:
> Q) Why did the dinosaurs really become extinct? A) They ate their
> young...
>
...
> 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
yeah, it can be frustrating.
I was going to suggest a book, and then I found it was just 1.2.
Rails 1.2+ was stepping stone to 2.x but I guess there are
differences. I came across this: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails2/
but I don't know if it is good or not.
Once you do get on the horse, you can then follow the changelogs
(http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/releases) for each new release, see or
download rails presentations, read blogs like Ryan's Scraps (to name
one) so you can see what's changing.
Even being on the horse can be frustrating though. I'm not
comfortable with the plugin ecosystem - but I can't justify why. I
don't like all the helper methods that rails provides that create an
extra layer between you and what's going on - but thankfully, they are
just helper methods so you can pick and choose. Rails testing is
brilliant, but you'll find yourself on a treadmill going from TDD (the
default) to BDD (rspec and friends).
--
Daniel Bush
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