RoR (Ruby on Rails) Guides

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parks11

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Hi Guys. I'm a programmer, not full time, but I'm studying Information Systems (and so learning VB.NET) and also learnt extensive Python and Java at school, but I really would love to learn Ruby on Rails as as far as I'm concerned you can really build some killer web applications using it and many of the big websites we know today of Web2.0 land where written in Ruby before moving to Scala (cue Twitter).

My question then is does anyone know some up to date guides/videos/etc that would allow me to learn RoR? I've done extensive searches and since the framework changed slightly in the latest version there are little annoyances that don't allow me to work through their examples.

Any one have any ideas? Possibly guides you've used that you could recommend?

Thanks in advance :)
 
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There's actually a pretty decent one on rubyonrails.org itself here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

It was redone for 3.0. I can't recommend any reading material for 3.0, since the guides I used when learning RoR are all based around 2. While the new features in 3.0 are awesome, they're not SO drastically different from the previous version that you couldn't learn using an older guide/tutorial, and then update yourself using articles covering the new features in 3.

RoR is awesome though - I've caught myself (especially when learning the new stuff in 3.0) going "woah, that's amazing" a lot using it. :)
 
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Brilliant. Thanks for your awesome reply :)

Ill definitely check that out. I also posted a question on a Ruby Forum and they came back with a few good ones too: http://railstutorial.org/ being the best. Definitely excited to get going with it all and frankly as much as the buzz is around languages like Objective-C (which I do want to learn) all devices utilize the web primarily and all you have to do is build a well made database that all the applications leverage off of.

It's a pity we don't have any RoR 'hack-groups' in South Africa (unless I am in the dark about them?)
 
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