Learning Ruby on Rails


Ruby on Rails is pretty cool. Here are some of the resources I'm using to learn it:

To get it up and running on Mac OS X, I found Dan Benjamin's how-to to be very good, for both PPC and Intel Macs:

Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X

Then I used a quick tutorial that is at the Apple Developer site:

Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X

Then here are two books that I like so far:

Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas

Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz

We're ordering some more Ruby/Rails titles, and I'll give more recommendations if I have any. Right now, 'm looking through Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler, but I am disappointed in the recipe for adapting an existing MySQL database, i.e., I still couldn't figure out how to do it ;-), so I'm withholding judgment.

Using TextMate on Mac OS X comes in handy too. There is a way to use it remotely, but I found it to be too slow, unfortunately. We use Bluehost as our hosting provider, and they've got a good help page on setting it up on your Bluehost account:

How to set up Ruby on Rails

Posted: Wed - July 18, 2007 at 09:58 AM      

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