Robert, this is great information. I truly appreciate your time writing these recommendations and the recommendations given by others.
Thanks a bunch! On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Ruby Student wrote in post #1025143: > > Hello team, > > > > I just installed Rails 3.1.0 on my LINUX (Red Hat) box. > > I also installed Apache2 and IBM DB2 9.7. > > While DB2 might be fine for production. I would recommend learning Rails > using its default SQLite 3 database. Doing so will make working with > Rails easier, since you'll likely do a lot less fighting with trying to > get your database configured. > * > > * > > I searched the web for a beginner's tutorials for Rails. Found a few, > > although some conflicting. > > One tutorial said that I could run: *rails demo*. I tried but it did not > > work. > > > > Another tutorial calls for running: rails new > > /opt/rails_3.1.0/Code/Ruby/weblog ......, which I did. But then what??? > > There was a time when Rails used a set of script kept under ./script. > Most of these old scripts have been rolled into the rails command. So > using "rails new" you're asking rails to create a new application, as > opposed to say starting the server "rails server" or optionally "rails > s". You can also do other things like start rails instance and enter the > console "rails console" or "rails c". > > You also use the rails command to generate various parts of a rails > application: > > rails g[enerate] model User > rails g[enerate] controller users > rails g[enerate] scaffold Post first_name:string last_name:string > email:string > > > Bottom line, I would love to find a good tutorial that has been tested > > so I > > can start playing with rails. > > BTW, I also purchased couple rails book over two years ago. One I recall > > is > > *Rails Recipes*. But I prefer soft copy materials. > > "Rails Recipes" is a fairly old book. Unless it's been updated to work > well with the latests version of Rails a lot of things in there might > not work as shown, or may be out-of-date. It's also a book intended for > programmers familiar with Rails rather than a book to teach Rails. > > Pragmatic Programmers is one good source for books on Ruby and Rails: > > http://pragprog.com > > But, before you go anywhere else looking for how to get started with > Rails, begin your reading here: > > http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ > > The API reference for Rails, which you'll need to get more details about > specific parts of Rails, go here: > > http://api.rubyonrails.org/ > > Between these two resources there is enough information for reasonably > experience programmers to find just about anything they need to know. > But, if you're looking for something that will walk your through > building a real world application with Rails I would highly recommend > the following book: > > http://pragprog.com/book/rails4/agile-web-development-with-rails > > You might also want to take a look at other books related to Ruby on > Rails: > > http://pragprog.com/categories/ruby_and_rails > > You might also find this book useful in you haven't found it already: > > http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book > > -- > 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. > > -- Ruby Student -- 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.
