[email protected] wrote in post #1012427: > 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
Live dangerously and outside the box. Ruby is a great first language to learn and Rails is a an extremely "fun" and dependable framework to design sites with. I would grab a sub to something like safaribooks online or similar so you can swap out books as you go. I like being able to change 5 books a month, and there's a lot of great reading material out there. When you want something permanently, I tend to go to sites like pragmaticbookshelf.com or similar. I would start with a Ruby book first. I started out reading Beginning Ruby, From Novice to Professional by Peter Cooper. It was a very solid book that gave me a firm grasp on Ruby and what an object oriented language (OOL) was about. I think I read the first 6 chapters which covered all of the basics at the time and one chapter dealing with core classes, and objects in Ruby and then I stopped, put it down, and swapped to my first Rails book, Foundation Rails 2. I read that entire book and went back and finished the Ruby book. Since this time, I've read approx. 4 to 5 different Ruby books and skimmed or read approx. 7 different Rails books. I keep up on Ruby and Rails forums, browse the guides from time to time, browse other public apps on github to see different coding styles, and then I experiment and test. I would dive in, especially if you have both a strong creative and a logical brain. You have nothing to lose. -- 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.
