Fernando Perez wrote: > Your app looks good, but it definitely took more than 9 weeks for a > total newbie to get to this state, or you weren't alone ;-)
Hi Fernando, It took me exactly 9 weeks and I was absolutely alone. When I started the most I knew about Ruby and Ruby on Rails was that it showed up in google. If you've followed any of my posts when I first started, it will show. The first book I read, I read all 16 chapters in one day: Ruby From Novice to Professional. What I enjoyed about the book was that I immediately understood the idea of objects and classes. I'm extremely logical and it fit well with the way my brain works. I then started on Foundation Rails 2 which helped me out immensely with how things work with Rails but I soon found it was starting to get a bit outdated and so I went to Agile Rails 3. When I got to Agile Rails 3, I was about 2 weeks into my project. I started to encounter database issues so someone told me I should go read one of the enterprise rails books to learn more about database association with rails. Like I said, I have a photographic memory and soak things up like a sponge. I learn incredibly fast. I already had knowledge of CSS, html, some ajax, and had been working with PHP for about 5 years. I'm an avid programmer in C++, AutoIt, and Actionscript and have been using flash for about 5 years (swishmax2 is my current fun app to work with). I have been designing sites with dreamweaver for awhile now, and used DW CS4 for much of the site templates, transferring the outlines over to rails. If you work hard at things, good things come. Ruby API, Rails API, and many screencasts sites out there help with any problems at hand. If I encountered a specific issue, I simply searched available screencasts sites, watched a few casts and learned something new, played with it, implemented it, and tested it. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
