Ruby on Rails

> > How to learn basics of Ruby and make learning interesting? How you all
> > started with Ruby? Whether Ruby first or Rails first?
> >
> I personally started with Ruby first. I like the books from The
> Pragmatic Bookshelf. (pragprog.com)

Ruby first. Rails is a great tool for quickly generating crud web interfaces and dealing with databases (and so much more). But, what it outputs is Ruby code, and if you understand ruby, you will understand much of the magic that is Rails.

Better yet, you'll be in a position to modify and extend the code that Rails generates to better suit the task at hand and gain a better understanding of things like 'method_missing' which is responsible for much of the magic behind the Rails curtain.

Feel free to check out http://RubyTalkTips.com. It's an open source website for Ruby showing what I have considered to be some of the best ruby language tips over the past few years from the Ruby Talk mailing list.

-- Steve Downie
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aka Capt. Downer
Sea of Anarchy Yacht Club
http://rubytalktips.com
email: captdowner@gmail.com

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