Michael, thank you for creating Rails Tutorial. Without you, I wouldn't have ever been able to land a development job at a fantastic startup and make me and my family financially secure for the first time in over a decade. I truly appreciate all your hard work constantly iterating and improving Rails Tutorial.

Rails is not beginner friendly anymore. Learning Ruby, rvm, gem, git, bundler, coffeescript, sprockets, spork, SASS etc. is a difficult, dense task. Rails apps are now full of dependencies and configuration (over convention) the "web development that doesn't hurt" slogan isn't actually true. This increasing complexity makes Rails Tutorial more relevant. Thanks Michael Hartl, great work.

Web development was never friendly. All the tools you mentioned including Rails are only making it easier and easier.

You have to pay the toll somehow. Whether that's the structured , straightforward learning curve of a framework or managing your own delicate menagerie of glue code, dependencies, and ad-hoc anti-patterns.

What's hard about web development is that most resources are one-dimensional. You've got your Git 101 and your Javascript 101 and your SQL 101. You understand closures and interactive rebasing and inner joins -- the easy stuff. The hard part is putting it all together and building a workflow out of it.

That's why Hartl's tutorial is such a good resource.

The magic is over

Hey Michael, Cmd + X selects and removes the current line where your cursor is... but, it overwrites anything you have in the copy buffer

Cool. Good to know.

The screencast lessons are great as well...for me well worth the cost. Nice job Michael.

I was surprised to see so few video views for these links.

Thanks! The view counts are low because I just announced their release today. Before now, only people who bought the screencasts knew about the links.

You should toss the links you reference into the description of the video (e.g. Your GitHub page).

I'm not sure what you mean. Could you elaborate? Do you mean links in the actual video? I'm relatively new to YouTube uploads, so any assistance would be much appreciated.

Once logged in to YouTube, go to "Video Manager" then "edit" there you will see the description. I believe that the individual above was saying that you should include either your personal github link there or any other links that you described in the tutorial so that the user could simply click the link in the description and stay engaged with the video!

P.S. your tutorials are amazing, and thank you for taking the time to complete them!

Thanks. I'll look into it!

Excellent tutorials!