A few weeks ago, a friend of mine told me he wanted to learn Rails. He asked me to prepare a private course about Rails and to teach him the basics of the framework.
After a brief discussion, we ultimately agreed that he couldn’t effectively use Rails without being a Rubyist. For this reason, I offered him to start with a Ruby concentrate, carefully prepared keeping an eye on Rails.
The presentation is called Ruby 4 Rails and is now available on GitHub. It is based on ShowOff, a Markdown-to-HTML presentation tool created by Scott Chacon. Make sure to read the README to learn how it works.
The initial part of the README is largely inspired by John’s post about Ruote.
Ruby 4 Rails is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at github.com.
Great presentation! I loved it.. many people need this to begin with Ruby!!!
Are you recommending 1.9.2 over for example ree or its about starting learning Ruby?? I recommend ree in production over all Ruby releases!
I recommend using Ruby 1.9.2 over any 1.8.x implementation, including REE.
Very nice! And very much appreciated. Now that you’ve finished this showoff project, you are probably wanting to do one on testing :D (hint hint!)
A very useful guideline. It clarified a few things for me. Molto grazie Simone.