On Jul 22, 5:06 am, "[email protected]" <[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've spent years in e-commerce, and while I'm not a master of html/css/ jquery I can certainly find my way around. I learn well with books, so two years ago I started with the agile (pickaxe) book. I built the demo app, and while it all worked, it was more of an exercise in how to follow directions and not make silly typos (although I don't find RoR to be overly picky like some real old-school languages/ frameworks). Last year I decided to spend my vacation attending the BigNerdRanch 7 day course for Ruby on Rails. It was in Atlanta, I paid a ton plus a flight, but walked away with the ability to code, debug, and the basic confidence to learn gems, etc, via a book or online resource. Having a live instructor in an environment where all you do is RoR seemed to really unlock the framework for me. I learned in 2.3.8, but quickly moved to 3+ last fall and now write in 3.0.9. Maybe a tutorial or video will work for you, but for me I struggled to grasp the MVC concepts and learn how to DRY my code and make fat Models only by being in a classroom. After you get those core building blocks, there's nothing better than having to complete a site (especially for a paying client). Good luck, and btw, I chose RoR over PHP several years ago because I'm looking to the future and believe the web future is RoR. Sure, it's hard. But if it was easy, everyone would do it and the pay rate would drop into the html-coder range. -- 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.
