John Munyi
A bit too old for where rails is right now
Details
This e-book will focus on setting your system up properly (for those systems that support it) and will fly a little lower than the typical 50,000 foot level of many tutorials.
What you will learn
* Set up Ruby Version Manager (RVM) to maintain sandboxed development environments
* Install Ruby 1.9.3 - install Rails 3.1 - create a Rails application
* Determine what Rails IDEs exist, as well as their pros and cons
* Generate a resource for your application to create, retrieve, update, and delete
* Modify a view template & know what's next
Description
This e-book (pdf format only) will focus on setting your system up properly (for those systems that support it) and will fly a little lower than the typical 50,000 foot level of many tutorials.
Who is this for?
While Rails is often touted as a good web development framework for beginners, there are rumblings in the community that Rails has outgrown that moniker the changes in Rails 3.1 are a result of a more mature community being in need of an advanced web framework. We’re going to focus on Rails 3.1 (RC4 at the time of writing), highlighting some of the changes at 3.1 as we go. I’ll assume that you’re comfortable on the command line; that is, “curl” is more than a Canadian verb.
Creator
Glenn Goodrich
Glenn works for Skookum by day and manages the SitePoint Ruby channel at night. He likes to pretend he has a secret identity, but can't come up with a good superhero name. He's settling for "Roob".
Reviews
Damian Kleiman
The book is nice, but talks about Rails 3.1 which is old now, should be updated to v.4.
Magdiel Cordero
I think this ebook is recommended to beginners users on Rails
orlin chirinos
Easy step by step learning process.
Daniel Mills
It was alright - if you use a Mac. The book shows you how to use RVM for ruby. RVM is only available for Mac. This book only showed how to use this, and did not explain a PC alternative, so it took about 10 minutes of me trying and failing to use this tutorial with another download package of ruby with rails for me to give up. Time for me to find another tutorial. I am sure this is great for Mac though, it has 3 good ratings right now.
