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RAZIM said:

What would you suggest to someone wishing to learn Ruby on Rails?

mewren said:

I highly recommend the Rolling with Ruby on Rails tutorials. They walk you through installing the development environment and creating a simple application in less than an hour.

JohnPhilipGreen said:

My friend Jeff Hardy recently published Beginning Rails which I honestly think is a better place to start than “Agile Web Development with Rails” which is the popular choice.

anteaya said:

Sorry to rain on the parade, but any tutorial that has not come out in the last three months will not work with the latest in rails. I have rails 2.0.2 and I have been directed to many sources none of which work. Even the fabio akita tutorials don’t work since they use sql and my rails uses sqlite.

If someone acutally put together a package which uses the latest version of rails, it would be a big hit since there are many people asking on the irc channels and they are in the same boat as I am.

Even the fabio akita tutorial assumes prior knowledge of rails but there is nothing that I have found for the absolute beginner.

It is a very frustrating situation. And I am willing to help compose said tutorial if I can work with someone who knows what they are doing.

Thanks, Anita.

Andrew Brown said:

If I get enough time I’ll start rounding up learning material for Rails soon. The Challenge is you got to be moving with Rails and activity listening to the community. This can be difficult when your new to Rails and don’t how to approach it.

So here’s my first attempt to provide some information for newcomers in the lesson called Learning How to Learn Rails

I hope to refine this so its more useful and add more lessons. But getting something up there for now is better than nothing

I have found too many good Rails Books. Its much easier to find others for assistance and watch the video from Peepcode and Railscasts.

anteaya said:

I disagree, Andrew. I think sometimes pointing to far flung resources sometimes confuses the beginner. You seem a capable, enthusiastic, articulate individual.

I would enjoy working with you to create an beginner tutorial for Rails 2.0.2, or whatever the latest stable release is.

Sometimes you need a simple success in order to justify the requisite clicking and waiting (dial-up) and sorting that is the process involved in following up lists of resource suggestions.

I don’t even know if two people can collaborate on lesson creation.

I’ll ask the folks in charge and see what they suggest.

Thanks, Andrew, Anita.

anteaya said:

I understand that collaborate lesson creation is on the features wish list and is, at present, not a reality.

Such is life.

My offer still stands. We can create work around collaboration methods until the feature is available on the site.

Let me know,

Thanks,

Anita.