Getting started with Ruby/Ruby on Rails
January 17th, 2009
One of the best parts of learning Ruby/RoR is getting in touch with it. If you see it in action you instantly want to learn it and you can!
The best ways to learn Ruby:
The best ways to learn Ruby on Rails:
- Get excited!
- Railscasts by Ryan Bates
- The official Ruby on Rails guides
- Rails API
- Rails Wiki
- The Ruby on Rails Link Library
The best books:
It is important to read the newest books because rails is developing fast and so the ways how something is done change often – and are getting easier as well
english:
- The rails bible: Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition is coming in march
german:
- The newest (and best german) book: Rapid Web Development mit Ruby on Rails
german openbooks:
- Galileo Computing: Ruby on Rails 2
- Oreilly: Praxiswissen Ruby on Rails (< rails2)
- Oreilly: Rails Kochbuch (< rails2)
Beware of old guides, links and tutorials, maybe things are done otherwise today than they’ve been some time ago!
HowTos:
Want to contribute an important link? I’d love to see your comment!
nice links here. besides reading the tutorials etc, and maybe if you passed the point of getting started, i suggest to follow datamapper, rails etc. on twitter to get up-to-date information about them and to read some blogs of the developers.. ( acts_as_flinn etc ).
Support you’re writing in english now, would be a shame to restrict to the germans only. Besides I’ll pick up you’re topic covering the whole rails process on a standard Apach, PHP Environment with a few tutorials of symphonie.
may be a good one, too : http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RailsInside/~3/WHaxJqCK0TA/210-setting-up-a-rails-development-environment-on-windows.html