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I'm looking for some blog that talks about ruby and rails.
Any tips?
Thanks
There's also PlanetRubyOnRails:
http://www.planetrubyonrails.com/
which is an aggregator of many ruby (and ruby on rails) blogs (you can find the list here, and eventually select just those you like and add them to your own feed reader)
I think that Ryan's Scraps is a very useful rails blog.
http://www.rubyinside.com/
http://www.railsinside.com/
Both are good at summing interesting stuff up, got most of the people I follow on a regular basis from there. :)
Ruby Best Practices has lots of good general ruby advice, while Yehuda Katz seems able to not only be extremely productive developing bundler, rails 3 and more, but also write good articles about them.
Other blogs I read not already mentioned include Ryan Tomayko, Pratik Naik and Pivotal Blabs, not to mention my own small corner of the web.
Railscasts - free RoR screencasts.
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I'm looking for a very concise guide to using rails. I've done lots of work with other similar frameworks like Django so I just need a very short tutorial. Does anything like that exist?
Thanks!
This is best guide for those who are new to rails..
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
If you're willing to put up with a few quick video tutorials, Rails for Zombies by EnvyLabs (railsforzombies.org) gives a good overview of the framework.
If you decide to check it out, know this: at the time of this writing, there's one error in the tutorials. The code they show you for writing a basic redirect is missing a prepended slash on the URI. (At least, according to the interpreter they use for the accompanying exercises, it's incorrect.)
Other than that small gripe, in my opinion it's a great way to onboard yourself and colleagues in Rails, before drilling down into the gritty details.
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I am php developer and I'm trying to change php to ruby/rails.
I've read "Rails for PHP developers" by Pargmatic, but it is very simple.
Now I need to learn all about ruby classes (namespacing, abstraction, extending, factory/signleton patterns, requesting parent class methods, etc), but all guides and manuals I've seen was to simple, they was good only for beginners as a introduction.
Reading Ruby reference isn't good idea, because it's to difficult for understanding (my skills in ruby are not so good yet), so I need some guide for "professional developers" with many examples. Good example is "php|architect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide" - http://www.amazon.com/architects-Zend-Certification-Study-Guide/dp/0973862149
Are there any book/guide/course to solve my problem?
Thanks!
This is the book from the master (aka Ruby creator) himself: http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Programming-Language-David-Flanagan/dp/0596516177
You need this.
"Metaprogramming Ruby" is well worth adding to your bookshelf.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Facets/dp/1934356476/
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I have been developing in Rails for about 3 years now, and would like to learn more about the Rails internals themselves. Rails 3 supposedly provides nice API's for integrating more closely with Rails, but I'm having a hard time finding documentation on how to use them. Here are some examples of what i'm looking for:
Rails Initialization Process
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/initialization.html
Arel Walkthrough
http://railscasts.com/episodes/239-activerecord-relation-walkthrough
Routing Walkthrough
http://railscasts.com/episodes/231-routing-walkthrough
http://railscasts.com/episodes/232-routing-walkthrough-part-2
Crafting Rails Applications
http://pragprog.com/book/jvrails/crafting-rails-applications
Are there any other good resources that an help as a guided tour of how Rails works?
(and please don't say read the source code.. I'm looking for a more guided explanation)
You may like this articles:
http://piotrsarnacki.com/2010/07/31/rails3-modularity/
http://piotrsarnacki.com/2010/06/18/rails-internals-railties/
But, you should start writing such articles by own, ie try to write how controllers instance variables are visible in views or prepare description of all rails modules and classes - this will make you much more familliar with rails.
The Ruby Metaprogramming Book has some chapters in the end teaching how ActiveRecord internals is made up.
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I went to an interview early today and it came out that I don't like php.
I was instructed by the 2 wonderful interviewers to consider ruby on rails
They explained a feature that a forum can be created within 15 mins.
My question is does anyone know any good tutorials for anyone who is a complete beginner to ruby on rails?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Go straight to http://railsforzombies.org
Very high quality online tutorial.
I did some tutorials online, but didn't really get what I wanted until picking up a couple books. These are my favorites.
Programming Ruby
Agile Web Development with Rails
The Rails Way
The Rspec Book
Getting Started with Rails
Check out The Official Web Page. A few clicks from there lands you at the Online Course
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book is a great resource.
take a look at http://www.buildingwebapps.com/learningrails or http://railscasts.com is a good source of information.
Like NewB said, I'd go with Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (affiliate link if you buy it, you can also read it online for free!). It's a very good introduction for complete beginners to web development, as it mentions git for version control and basic SQL stuff.
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I'm new to Mongo DB and Mongoid (and still kinda new to Ruby on Rails). Since Ryan Bates dosen't happen to have a Mongoid Railscast, I need pointers to other good tutorials/screencasts.
Thanks!
There is now a Railscast for Mongoid: http://railscasts.com/episodes/238-mongoid
I find it best to read over the documentation, scan the google group, then just start looking at code.
Here are a couple apps that use mongoid:
http://github.com/fortuity/rails3-mongoid-devise
http://github.com/fortuity/rails3-subdomain-devise
Good luck.
This is what you are looking for MongoDB & Mongoid - RubyJax February 2010 It's the introduction to Mongoid by his creator!
great one here about using gridFS, mongoid and carrier-wave
Just start using it.
It's pretty easy and if it's missing something that you think should be there, just add it as a support ticket on the github issue tracker. Don't forget to include why you think it should be there. (http://github.com/durran/mongoid/issues)