Thanks very much... I'll give those a try... I have catalogued all teh steps down the path and what to avoid... Hopefully can get a fairly smooth "Beginners do these steps" down the track...
Cheers On Nov 17, 3:44 pm, "Jeremy McAnally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
