So, I have been “trying”
to learn Ruby on Rails for a long time now. Like a few years. I’m like a super failure at this task. One excuse I have is that Ruby on Rails is a
newer language and the learning material are not as developed and mature as
others, such as VBA and SQL. I’ve come
across a lot of shitty tutorials for VBA and SQL, but also some really good
ones (see at end). But so far, I have
not come across good ROR tutorials, maybe because it is too broad… I’m still hopeful though, and trying
different ways of learning at a snail pace.
Honestly though, I a
real class or tutor will help a lot more in ROR learning than trying a book or
online tutorial… I mean, take it from
one that’s failed at this for many times.
The Well-Grounded Rubyist
After going through
the first 15 pages of google search on how to learn ROR, I came across this
book. Many people suggested on forums
that this is a must-have book for ROR n00bs.
That would be me. So, I ordered
the book.
Anyway, this book
is pretty thick. I got through the first
¼ understanding it fairly well. The
middle half was like, I “kind of got it theoretically,” and the last ¼ was just
like… Still in English? No idea.
The truth is, this
book was not meant to be a tutorial. It
would be unfair for me to treat it like one.
This book is a manual. The author
tries to balance that appropriate details from something “a three year old
would know” to “this could really help even an advanced person.” That’s a hard task, and I have no idea if he
accomplished it or not, because I’m not even a three year old.
I do “feel” the
book will be a very important reference as my experience continues to grow
(provided I don’t just say fuck it and quit – recently I’m debating this).
I bought another
ROR book, one that is meant to be a tutorial.
If I remember correctly there are over 600+ pages. Will
be back here when I’m done with it………….
Now, the best tutorials I've come across:
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/sql
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