A quick guide to some prominent Ruby on Rails learning materialsby Tom Elam, about.me/tomelam

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I’ve always felt like a Rails newbie, so please jump in with your observations!

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www.ruby-doc.orgGet to know your way around the primary sources.Self-confidence, diligence, persistence, and intelligence!Understand what you’re doing, at the very least at a high level!

Start with ruby-lang.org.

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There’s a tremendous amount of poor advice out there!

Be very careful of glib advice!

You are guaranteed to encounter things that don’t compile some day.

Don’t start too fast. Recovering from a bad install attempt can cost you!

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Some basics

• Make a good choice for an operating system and distribution.

• Take careful notes.

• Read about your specific setup and requirements.

• Keep track of program output, especially errors and sanity checks.

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www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby

Ruby in Twenty MinutesTuesday, 14 May 13

The Ruby Programming

Language

From:•The horse•A renowned programming language book author

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10 Minutes to Your First Ruby Application (neurogami.com)

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Ruby on Rails

APIsGuidesScreencasts

rubyonrails.org

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Many Rails books:

•Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial•Rails 3 in Action•Agile Web Development with Rails•Rails Recipes•...

All out of date or too bleeding edge!

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