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Does anyone know of a good tutorial or application for asking and answering questions for Ruby on Rails, much like this site (although it probably will be for a very different purpose in the end)?
If you're serious about building this application, I can only suggest to just learn Ruby on Rails and build it yourself, instead of looking for a tutorial. There's plenty of great learning material, and assuming you've got a decent understanding of programming in Ruby, Rails is incredibly easy to get started with. As far as books go, Agile Web Development with Rails definitely gets my recommendation.
Either way, the Rails Guides are probably a good first read, It'll help you understand the basics of MVC and how to build a simple Rails app, so you can jump in and start building your own application. If you run into any problems down the road, post your questions here and I'm sure you'll get the answer you're looking for.
Even if tutorials existed for building every kind of application, knowing what's going on and how to architect your application around your specific needs is really important.
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I once build a webshop in Rails using the Spree framework. This was great since everything I needed for a webshop came out of the box. Now I want to make a website for people who organize dance parties. The site should have information of the new line-up and location, pictures/videos of older parties, and the possibility to buy new tickets.
I hope if you think of something that can be used which is like what Spree is for a webshop but then for the above requirements I would be very happy if you could share it with me.
Thanks for your help.
Rails is a good framework for this.
Meaning I can't think of anything premade to help you accomplish this, but it doesn't sound difficult to do from scratch.
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is there any rails tutorials that teaches without the use of rake commands or other rails commands that result in code being auto generated for you or other luxuries that favour productivity over understanding.
If you have trouble following, for example http://ruby.railstutorial.org/book/ruby-on-rails-tutorial (which is basically THE TUTORIAL for Rails) it is very likely that you have trouble with Ruby and not with Rails.
I would suggest that you dig (deeper) into Ruby (codecademy.com has a very nice Ruby branch) and Rails becomes much easier to understand.
At least that was my learning experience!
On the code generation:
It makes sense to generate these stubs because they adhere to the MVC paradigm. If you don't understand that part, do some research on that.
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I'm new to Rails, and I'm learning that you could save a lot of time by using the right gems. For example, simple_form is great for making forms, and high_voltage is great for making static pages. I've been reading http://learn-rails.com/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-for-beginners and there seem to be a ton of these gems.
So is there a listing of gems that are useful for making Rails apps? Particularly for beginners. (Also, just a thought, but it would be nice if Rails were structured in such a way where these thing were preinstalled, so you could just learn how to do stuff without searching for the right gems all the time.)
EDIT: I've seen blog posts and stuff, but it would be nice if there was a listing that is both 1) somewhat of a consensus, and 2) updated.
I have found https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ to be very useful.
They have done a good job of dividing by category, showing last activity, etc.. It is not a list of most popular to least, but thats a tough thing to do since most apps have different requirements.
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I'm looking at creating a web app (similar functionality to kickstarter)
However i'm not a programmer and my knowledge is very minimal & i'm looking for one to help.
I'm about to post this on freelancer, should the project be built in RoR or Django?
What is the quickest + the best quality?
Thanks for your help
Jake
Here you go, a Kickstarter Clone: https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter.
If you're thinking about what the project should be built in, Django or RoR, both of which are great choices, then you should really consider the strengths of who will help you. If that person has more experience with RoR, then RoR. If they have more experience with Django, then Django. At such an early stage in a project, deciding between great frameworks that will get the job done is micro-optimization that could wait a while (I don't think there are many if any drawbacks between choosing one over the other performance-wise). Thus, the choice should come from team dynamics and what the team building the product is most comfortable with.
In this case, you don't have a team, but if you were to find someone or some people, and they were all proficient in RoR, then RoR would be the clear choice. If, on the other hand, you are planning on learning web development, and are asking which you should learn, my personal choice would be RoR.
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I've been looking at creating themes for wordpress, but I'm not a fan of PHP. I'd rather use Rails.
Does anyone know of a blogging engine written using Rails?
http://radiantcms.org/
http://www.enkiblog.com/
https://github.com/fdv/typo/wiki/
There are a couple of blog engines written using rails. Kalyan M highlighted a few good ones. Here are a couple more for you to consider based upon your needs:
Refinery CMS
I tested this cms before and really like how simple it is to use. In fact, RailsCast did a really nice video on how to install and use this. http://railscasts.com/episodes/332-refinery-cms-basics
Browser CMS
I have not used this before but my fellow non-dev friend who used it really like that it is non-dev friendly.
Locomotive CMS
Radiant CMS
This is one of the oldest Rails cms out there. It has a large amount of extensions contributed by the community and is constantly improving. I would recommend that you test this out.
Good luck!