Starting Ruby on Rails: What I Wish I Knew

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Ruby on Rails is an elegant, compact and fun way to build web applications. Unfortunately, many gotchas await the new programmer. Now that I have a few rails projects under my belt, here’s my shot at sparing you the suffering I experienced when first getting started.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://betterexplained.com/articles/starting-ruby-on-rails-what-i-wish-i-knew/
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excelent “bootstrap article” on ruby and rails! Pretty informative for beginners… :slight_smile:

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Very good article. I’m new to Rails and articles like these keep me motivated. I’ll be checking your blog for my tips! Thx!

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Awesome, glad you are finding it useful. Rails is really fun, but has quirks. I hope I can save people some trouble.

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wonderful article! Thx for this! respect respect

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[…] Kalid has posted a wonderful summary of what to expect from Ruby/Rails if you are coming in from other language background. Would strongly recommend you read it once. Even if you are a master of Ruby and Rails it will help you to use this summary page to get new team member onboard. […]

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thanks.
the most annoying thing about rails is all the tutorials that say “gosh ! its so easy ! look I’m already done !” and fail to actually give us any useful details.
you were all meat :slight_smile:

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Thanks Felix. I’m glad you liked it, I find it annoying when tutorials don’t actually give examples, so I’m happy that came through :).

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Nice Ruby / Rails Tutorial…

Kevin Rose found a nice tutorial on Starting Ruby on Rails. Much nicer than some of the other ones out…

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