I am new to Rails. I have done the Rails Tutorial by Hartl <http://www.railstutorial.org/> I have done the Ruby tutorial at Code Academy <http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/ruby> , completed the the Engineering Berkeley Software as Service <https://www.edx.org/course/uc-berkeleyx/uc-berkeleyx-cs169-1x-engineering-1377>course, done a Coursera course <https://www.coursera.org/course/webapplications>, and read a few basic books (Ruby on Rails 4 Guide <http://www.amazon.com/dp/1491054484/ref=pe_385040_30332190_TE_M3T1_ST1_dp_1> ).
First of all, the tutorial by Hartl is excellent. Really helped me get an overview. It's where I should have started my quest, but I started with the Coursera course which was really a copy-paste exercise. I then did the EdX (Berkeley) course which was pretty hard but the Ruby part was good. I did not do any pairing in the course and had lots of trouble toward the end getting the RSpec testing concepts. I got the certificate but did not feel confident to go on to part 2. I then did the Hartl tutorial which clarified a lot. The ruby course at Code Academy was very good too (prerequisite for EdX course) I am stuck on my first app. I find myself re-reading general documentation for answers which is getting old. I picked up the Rails 4 Way book but that looked a bit advanced. I have read so general stuff much that I am forgetting basics ;-) - like how to use Ruby. I wonder how to get specific help when you work alone, are self funded, and do not have a budget for support or training. I posted a question to stack overflow, but a few days have gone by and not usable answer yet. I have heard of airpair <http://www.airpair.com/> but could run up a bill pretty fast with $60-90+ per hour. Any ideas or general thoughts on getting help with projects when you hit a snag or want a feature that is beyond your current abilities? I used elance for a php project once. Result took much longer than promised and had lots of mistakes before it was right. I have again begun to wonder about using contractors from on one of these elance type sites. What have you tried when hitting a roadblock or have bigger vision than current skills? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/1ddb4f59-3008-4876-a2eb-5e45a7755e2b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
