Re: Newbie Question - .RHTML files

dasil003
Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:06:11 -0000

The two canonical references are Programming Ruby and Agile Web
Development with Rails, both by Dave Thomas.  I always keep these
handy when I''m programming in Rails just for the reference sections.

There''s really no need to learn Ruby first.  Learning both at the same
time is great, especially because Rails showcases many advanced
features of Ruby.  As a computer scientist, my recommendation would be
Ruby for Rails by David Black which goes into detail on a lot of Ruby
specifics that are different from other languages without too much
basic programming filler.  Ruby syntax is pretty straightforward, but
it''s the dynamic bits that really set it apart from language like Java
and PHP.  The discussion of Modules and Classes, for instance, was
worth the price of the book by itself.  This is critical with Ruby
because code can be defined in any number of places and mixed in--if
you don''t understand those mechanisms, much of Rails will remain a
black box, and that is a bad place to be when you run into a deep bug.


On Jun 1, 7:18 pm, Jonathan Goodapsture <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-
s.net> wrote:
> WEll answer me this then...
>
> Should I learn ruby first and then rails?
>
> What would be a good resource to srart first with?
>
> And then can you list a few more resources to go from that in order of
> importance please.
>
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