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I started learning ruby on rails about 3 month ago. I' ve follow several tutorial on twitter clone and i'm on my way to finish the Ruby on rails tutorial by micheal hartl and was wondering how do i make sure to push for the next level. My goal is to be able to make great app that can deal the actual web standard . There is a lot of content to learn rails for beginner but i would like to get blog, tutorial ,books or any other link for those how want to push there knowledge on the framework forward . Thank you .
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The short answer would be: "Practice, Practice, Practice".
Start reading code of gems you've using. You will pleasantly surprised that you can find answers for many your questions by diving into the code.
Along with the practice you should always be informed about news, tips, tricks and new features. So I would recommend you subscribe to RubyWeekly unless you already subscribed. Read articles about Ruby on Rails and play with the code samples you've read from these articles.
I've also recommend you to become involved with TDD/BDD it really changes the thinking about how writing code.
Follow the screen casts. You probably know about RailsCasts. I've also recommend you to subscribe on Destroy All Software it's cost $9 per month but it worth it.
Good luck.
Here is a lot of free books about programming (includes ruby, sql, design patterns and others): http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html
My recommendation.
In order to read:
http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321584104
http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Way-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Ruby/dp/0321601661
http://www.amazon.com/Rails-AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321604814
http://www.amazon.com/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Pros/dp/1934356476
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I have been working on the Propertywebbuilder app on Heroku.
I am looking for help on how to:
edit the html, so i can add an item to the footer.
I would also like to know how i can add more functionality to the app.
it is built with Ruby on rails.
here is the link to the app: PropertywebBuilder
I have deployed it on Heroku and have been playing around, but would like to learn how to improve and add things to it.
many thanks
You need to learn about Rails no one is just going to code for you, unless you're paying them some serious money at least.
The two best resources that helped me learn Ruby on Rails are below. The first is a free book by Michael Hartl https://www.railstutorial.org/book he also has some screencasts but you have to buy those.
the second resource was a company called the Pragmatic Studio that I actually learned about from reading Hartl's book. https://pragmaticstudio.com/ they offer a low cost Rails I and Rails II course that is extremely good. It got me up and building web apps quickly.
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yesterday i was reading an article that touched on twitter and made mention of how it can be influential if someone like Tim O'Reilly makes a suggestion then his 1.5 million followers on twitter will react to such tweets and cause some sort of reaction.
weather tweets and/ or the entire online social media ecosystem is debatable to no end it is a means of staying informed, sort of like watching the morning news.
this thought has sparked me to create a twitter account so that i can follow current events in what im interested in, namely software development and technology in general.
this brings me to my current situation of what intelligent people are worth following and listening too. i know the social media web is flooded with mind numbing nonsense but in part there are movers and shakers like Tim O'Reilly who are well worth listening too if for nothign more than getting a sense of which direction the wind is blowing.
so the million dollar question is who do you follow regularly?
please list the moniker of the person for others (ME) to be able to easily add & follow them as well... also list the medium (facebook/ twitter...)
in particular im interested in these technologies(MS SQL, asp.net/ C#)
thanks all for helping me get off to a fast start.
The standard ones are problably something like:
haacked
jonskeet
spolsky
scottgu
Not exactly your what you are looking for, but I would also consider blogs as well if I were you, which I find much more in depth and easier to follow than tweets. I would certainly add Scott Hanselman to the list of people you follow.
Blog: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
Twitter handle: shanselman
The two that top my list:
martinfowler
unclebobmartin
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I've just started learning Ruby on Rails, and all the tutorials and books I've used rely on scaffolding to get started. I've written two simple apps but I still can't figure out how to independently write a database-driven app without using scaffolding, and yet from what I've read online most professional Rails developers don't use it. Are there any tutorials that would help a newbie create their first app without scaffolding?
This one http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/the-intro-to-rails-screencast-i-wish-i-had/ is pretty good and helpful.
"Rails 3 in Action" is a good resource (I've even bought it ;)), one thing I hate about it is a sort of enforced usage of Cucumber.
Cucumber is a great tool, worth mentioning, but it is used all over the book and it clutters the narrative terribly. I would like to have Cucumber-free version of the book and I belive that most beginners would prefer the same.
Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl: http://www.railstutorial.org/
Best resource for Rails learning I've come across, whether in paper or online.
I'm currently writing a book called Rails 3 in Action that sounds like it would "answer" your question.
Whilst the first chapter does cover scaffolding (just for a "quick win"), the rest of the book goes through and teaches you how to develop an application using the exact same process that people in the real world do.
You'll learn Rails, Cucumber and RSpec, along with the other gems that we pick up along the way of developing the application.
Give it a shot and let me know what you think.
Check out some of the older Railscasts.
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I've searched and I've found a lot that are antiquated.
Any suggestions?
You can easily create a wiki with zena (a rails CMS):
You create an empty application with
zena wiki
You initialize an empty database
cd wiki; rake zena:init RAILS_ENV=production
You set the publish, write and read groups of a node to "public" (use the wrench tool, "drive" tab)
You change the anonymous user's status from "moderated" to "user" (user management by clicking on the "Admin User" link)
And you have a wiki with multilingual support (if you need it) and the usual versioning, diff tools and image management.
I think building an application like that from scratch would be much easier trust me! The reason why I dont suggest building from CMS or any other gem is because you need to learn how it works which might be easier but integrating it into your application is tough and it gets tougher especially when the versions are different. I built wiki for one of the social networking website that I was building. It is simple. I built it just like I built a blog. Each blog has a post and an Author just like wiki has a user and a question asked by the user.
Blog has comments and wiki has answer to the question. Every other minor details follow along. I am still in the process of building a robust wiki with these basics. So I will be happy to help with any more questions that follow along.
The video that helped me with this process is:
http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_blog_2.mov
Feel free to ask any more doubts that follow. I will be happy to share the code that I built.
maybe you want to take a look at the instiki sourcecode: http://github.com/parasew/instiki - there is lots of code you can reuse. have fun!
You looked at these? http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1816/top-ruby-on-rails-tutorials
None of them are "solid"?
Maybe looking at working examples might help you as well. I do not know wiki tutorial for rails, but know about these wiki solutions, written on the top of rails and without rails, but written in ruby:
irwi is a complete wiki plugin for Ruby on Rails
instiki - another wiki running on rails
riki wiki - this is fun: it was written in ruby for the shortest wiki contest, it is not documented, but the code might explain itself
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I know that http://api.rubyonrails.org/ is meant to explain methods etc in ruby on rails, but I need something that explains the explanation to me. It seems like a good resource, I'd like to understand it or perhaps it's time to give up.
I think this might be what I was after
Reading the API
I suggest you try some light reading first. Quite a few Rails tutorials exist.
As the URL indicates, this is API documentation. You use it for reference, not for learning about the language or framework. This is not specific to the Rails API, but for just about every framework out there.
I suggest you follow a few Ruby tutorials and then start on a few Rails tutorials first.
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ should get you started on Ruby. I won't bother linking to Rails tutorials, but http://railscasts.com/ is an excellent place to start once you get a basic Rails app up and running.
After that, the Rails API will start making a lot more sense.
http://api.rubyonrails.org is definitely not what I would call newbie friendly. Here's some places to go for more information:
railsapi.com -- Same idea but way better presentation, easier to navigate. Use this like you would msdn.com: a reference for things you already know about, but need to look up the particulars.
guides.rubyonrails.org -- This is geared much more towards new users in a tutorial format.
railscasts.com -- Short demonstrations of particular features and plugins in screencast format.
Of course if you have any specific questions about the framework you've already come to the right place.
I recommend at http://www.railsbrain.com and http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v2.3.5/ as better ways of navigating the docs.
Another good source would be apidock.com
Contains lots of examples on how to use each rails feature.
In addition the same site also provides documentation for Ruby
This one has a lot of good examples: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby-on-rails-2.1/rails-quick-guide.htm