Re:Ask HN: Best way to learn Ruby on Rails?
by jethrokuan on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:44PM
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I've went through rails for zombies. Second thing i went through after poignant.
Was following Nettuts suggested method: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/the-best-way-to-learn...
Incidentally I met Obie Fernandez in person :D at the Red Dot Ruby Conference in Singapore he sent me a pdf version of his book :D
I'll try out eloquent ruby, maybe after the pickaxe.
After that, a great resource is http://railsforzombies.com/, and codeschool in general. It's a series of incredibly well made video presentations, which you are then tested on. Once/before you finish that, you should work on actually building an application, maybe following http://railstutorial.org/.
Once you have finished that, you are well on your way to proficiency, and probably have enough understanding of rails to build your application. Some great resources are http://guides.rubyonrails.org/index.html, http://www.codeschool.com/courses/rails-for-zombies-2, and http://api.rubyonrails.org/.
If you have done that, and you still want to learn more, then I would learn more about javascript, and read The Rails 3 Way:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321601661/zenruby-20.... Finally to learn more about Ruby, read Eloquent Ruby: http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professio....
Once you have done that, you should have a pretty solid grounding in Ruby, Rails, and web development in general.