I learned Rails first and got into Ruby because of it. If you have programmed before, I don't think you need to know Ruby to do anything simple with Rails, but you do need Ruby do anything substantial. "Agile Web Development with Rails" really doesn't require much prior Ruby knowledge to get a feel for the language. Instead, it encourages exploration into Ruby. My students love reading it and learn a lot from it, but then they've programmed before.
If you're completely new to programming, Chris Pine's "Learn to Program" is exceptional. On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Philipe Farias <[email protected]> wrote: > > Like some already said, learn ruby first. > For this here some good resources: > > - Learn to Program - If you are beginning in the programming world. > http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ (free html) > http://pragprog.com/titles/fr_ltp/learn-to-program (improved comercial > book) > > - Try Ruby! - Practical online tutorial. > http://tryruby.hobix.com/ > > - Programming Ruby (aka The Pickaxe book) - If you really wanna get > into after the first steps. > http://pragprog.com/titles/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9 > > - Official Ruby Site - More resources. Look for mailing lists and irc > channels too. > http://ruby-lang.org > > After this you can get into the ruby webdev land through the Sinatra > microframework (http://sinatra.rubyforge.org/) just before dive into > Rails. Found that using Sinatra is great to learning more and > exercising my ruby and web knowledge...and it's also a great framework > for really simple apps. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
