Rails - May 2006 - Re: Still Stumbled on First things in trying, RubyOnRails

Ling,

I got the Agile Development with RoR book. As my next project was to be 
a bespoke online shop, I started by trying to copy the complete tutorial 
project - an online shop. I got a load of errors and had no way of 
working out how to fix them... Or extend the code and write new rails 
projects.

When I took out a couple of days to go through the tutorial step by 
step, I ended up with a working app, and the beginnings of a knowledge 
of Ruby and Rails. I wouldn''t say I''m expert, but I can
confidently bash
out simple web apps now, and I have more of an idea of where to look for 
the complex stuff.

Moral?

Do the exercises! That''s what they''re there for. ;^)