On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:06 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I am a designer guy not a programmer. My coding skills are html, css
and some jquery tweaks to suit my needs, but i come to a point where i
think i need to learn a real language. What i'm doing now is working
with Textpattern or Wordpress(but i dont really like it) when i need
some dynamic web site. So my question is: is RoR viable for me or is
to overwhelming. Should I stick to my current situation and be and
average cms "tweaker" or learn a new language to boost my toolbox? I
asked this same question on another forum and 90% of the replies where
to learn PHP and work with wordpress ( but the code ....).
I have the Learn to Program and the Agile Web Development with Rails
books and if i go with RoR maybe should i buy also Ruby on Rails 3
Tutorial Live Lessons book+video to help me out?
Please try to be unbiased as possible in the advices :)
Thanks in advance
I spent a very long time in PHP-land before committing myself to Rails
full-time. It was definitely a learning experience, but it also made
for some serious un-learning once I entered the world of Rails.
Books are great, I would add to your list Tobie Fernandez's The Rails
3 Way. I've heard good things about the online course Rails for
Zombies, but I haven't tried it myself. Definitely do the Rails
Tutorial http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ as that will save you some
retraining later. If you want to buy the book + screencast, that's
great, but I got a lot out of the online course by reading it for
free. Test early, test often!
My sincerest advice to you is to get a little bit comfortable with the
framework, and then try to get a client who needs something done
within a month. I've found that to be an excellent "teacher" as well.
Oh, and look around for a meetup or RUG in your area. We are lucky in
Philadelphia to have two RUGs and at least a few meetups for
functional programming. YMMV.
Best of luck, I doubt very much that you will regret it in a year.
Walter
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