Ask HN: Best way to learn Ruby on Rails?

Re:Ask HN: Best way to learn Ruby on Rails? by thejerz on Saturday June 16, 2012 @07:05PM (#4121718)

I highly recommend The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez. If you have some background in C++, C, and PHP, this book will suit you well.

However I agree with the other commenters that you should absolutely learn HTML, CSS, and JS first. There's no point digging into Rails until you know these basic technologies...

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to learn Ruby on Rails? by jethrokuan on Saturday June 16, 2012 @11:52PM (#4122180)

I do understand HTML, CSS and JS to some extent.

You could take a look at the following a my friend and I (new to Rails) built using Ruby on Rails: http://supernotes.herokuapp.com/ for our school friends in a few days. It's still quite bare, with little JS or AJAX but that's because we're studying for our exams now.

I might have to learn the ruby first too. Seems quite key when i want to build my custom .html.erb pages.

Obie sent me the print version of his book, I'll probably take a look at it. Though in his email he considered it to be "more of an intermediate book".

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