On 9 November 2010 23:39, Filippos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there dear Ruby on Rails experts. > > I decided to dive into the world of web development and Ruby on Rails > is my cutting-edge choice for developing and deploying webapps. > > Unfortunately i can not find any book to help and guide me through the > language with examples and projects written in simple words. > So far what i've found online are websites that praise RoR , which is > fine by me, and blogs or wikies that address the mid level user who is > switching from a different language and therefore have a basic > background of programming (c++, java, ruby, visual basic or any other > object or non object oriented language) > > What about those who have no background? > I bought two books already but they require some knowledge of > programming and after some point it gets complicated. >
I personally found "Learn to Program", "Programming Ruby" & "Agile Web Development with Rails" from http://www.pragprog.com along with the excellent http://railstutorial.org to be some of the best resources around if you are new to programming. "Learn to Program" is worth working through if you have never used Object Oriented programming before, even if you have some experience with non OO programming. A lot of the concepts I found not explained elsewhere are clearly shown in this book. "Programming Ruby" is a very handy reference to have, as Rails is written in ruby. "Agile Web Development with Rails" has given me enough to want to use and learn Rails. Also, http://railsapi.com/ has downloadable API Documentation for when you are not connected to the net and need to find out how something works. After that, nothing beats just sitting down and trying it out! HTH > Any help would be a plain miracle because i really want to learn the > language! > > I was in a similar boat, just dabbled before, never really seriously tried to sit down and learn. -- 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.
