Ruby on (and off the) Rails
Monday 14 July 2008I’m having issues learning Ruby on Rails. “No!” I hear you cry, why could this possibly be? Have I discovered another framework that’s quicker and better? Well, no. The reason I’m having trouble learning Ruby on Rails is due to content of tutorials on the web. I’ve found it very hard to distinguish between tutorials that cover RoR 1.x and tutorials that cover 2.x.
My first port of call was (creator of Ruby on Rails) David Heinemeier Hansson’s How to build a blog engine in 15 minutes in Ruby on Rails. This wasn’t a success (wooups!). I also tried various others with varying degrees of success.
Now maybe this is just me being a n00b and picking the wrong tutorials but I’ve never had this problem with any other language. It seems the stumbling point is with the removal of Dynamic Scaffolding from Rails 2.0. As most introductory tutorials want to get you off the ground as quickly as possible they tend to use scaffold, a lot.
A couple of places that have been a help are Jonathan S NG’s Tutorials andAkita on Rails.
