How to learn Ruby on Rails in one week

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Read and view these in order:

  1. Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

    a very readable webcomic that teaches & is totally free (Attribution-ShareAlike)

  2. Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide

    This will take you from newbie to expert Ruby programmer

  3. Getting Real by 37 Signals

    This is a fantastic free-to-read-online book about design principles of web development (with Rails).

  4. Must Know Facets of Ruby on Rails

    The 8 essential things you have to know to understand Ruby on Rails.

  5. Ruby On Rails Quick Start - From Nothing To A Simple Database Driven Web Application In Ten Simple Steps

    Great guide to turn you on to fully functional rails in five minutes

  6. How to use SQLite in Ruby on Rails

    SQLite is a SQL database that’s great for small database

  7. Ruby on Rails from Scratch Part I

    $9 Peepcode screencast that shows you how to get up and running with rails in 75 minutes

  8. Ruby on Rails from Scratch Part II

    $9 Peepcode screencast that explains the finer points of rails in 80 minutes

  9. Ruby on Rails: Test First Development

    $9 Peepcode screencast that explains the importance and easy of test-first development in ruby

  10. Rails Code Review .pdf

    $9 Peepcode guide meant for beginners that is really top notch and covers a ton of topics

  11. How to Avoid Hanging Yourself with Rails

    .pdf presentation on how to use ActiveRecord right the first time

  12. ActiveRecord Relationships Cheatsheet

    covering belongs_to, has_many, etc. Printable!

  13. Rails2 .pdf

    $9 Peepcode guide that discusses all the new features of Rails2, which is pretty standard as of 2008.

  14. RailsCasts.com

    Free Ruby on Rails Screencasts; several new ones discuss features in Rails 2.1.

  15. Multiple belongs_to relationships

    What if your article has three authors, each of which you want to reference with a foreign key?

Total cost? $45. The total cost of one credit hour of computer science at my university, Virginia Commonwealth University? $245. Most courses at my university are three credit hours.

May 22, 2008 | Filed Under How to

 

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