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Well, you're suppose to learn Ruby before Ruby on Rails right? Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
by GoofyGewber 14y ago
Well, you're suppose to learn Ruby before Ruby on Rails right? Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
- glimcat 14y agoIf you have previous programming experience, I don't think that it matters much. You can always look stuff up as you go if you already know enough to know what you're looking for.
- zampano 14y agoHonestly, if you're planning on focusing on Rails eventually, I'd start with the Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl (http://ruby.railstutorial.org http://ruby.railstutorial.org). It's easy to get lost as a total beginner with all the various things Ruby itself is capable of, when you might have better results focusing on a smaller subset of the whole, at least to start. Rails tutorial also has a chapter early on (one of the first five) that contains an intro to ruby and can point you in the right direction from there. Book-wise, you can't go wrong with The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Grounded-Rubyist-David-Black/dp/1933988657 http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Grounded-Rubyist-David-Black/...) to begin with. I found it a lot more approachable than the Pickaxe book early on. Good luck, Ruby was my first language and I learned a lot about learning programming languages from that experience.
- GoofyGewber 14y agoThanks so much!