learn ruby on rails

i’m by no means an expert. but i finally wrote a ‘proper’ quick app just before christmas and realised i know more than i thought. yay!

try and ignore the silly hype, realise you will have to learn ruby and that, once you go off the rails, things aren’t as simple as people like to tell you, and everything works out (well, it did for me).

i enjoy learning new stuff. but get frustrated when i don’t know how to do stuff. this is an odd conflict.

with my rails stuff i’ve got to take a nice incremental approach – so i understand everything i’m doing. i keep diving in too far (the website really doesn’t need friends lists/gmap integration/fancy scalability yet).

and i’m now on my nice shiny new mac. pretty impressed with textmate so far (i like lots of keyboard shorcuts. keep those arms in working order). these 2 resources are proving invaluable:
http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html
http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2005/08/18/are-you-a-console-master

the use of an interactive shell is how i generally work stuff out in py, so why not here as well? haven’t found anything to match ipython yet, however…

must keep going…

i’ve certainly nailed the basics, followed the tutorials etc. but haven’t written my own full app yet.

i think i’ll mark this as done when i’ve done that :)

and the agile rails book is great. i got the pdf version a while back and have just ordered the paper one from amazon for a bargainous 17 pounds. anyone with even a passing interest in rails/web apps should do the same.