十月 31, 2007

A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The
answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of
sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful:

  1. Rolling
    with Ruby on Rails
    - Curtis Hibbs of ONLamp.com offers his first excellent
    introduction to Ruby on Rails. This is the article that got me really excited
    about RoR.
  2. Rolling
    with Ruby on Rails, Part 2
    - The sequel to Curtis Hibbs excellent series of
    articles.
  3. Four Days on Rails (PDF) - a great
    tutorial that is broken down into simple tasks that you can do over a four day
    period. To be quite honest, this tutorial only takes about 2 hours, but
    nonetheless it is very well organized!
  4. Really
    Getting Started in Rails
    - Amy Hoy has a great tutorial that not only covers
    RoR, but also introduces the reader to many of the basic concepts of the very
    cool Ruby scripting language.
  5. Tutorial in Ruby
    on Rails
    - is a basic tutorial aimed at newbies.
  6. Fast-track
    your Web apps with Ruby on Rails
    - IBM jumps into the sandbox with an
    excellent (as usual) tutorial to get you on your feet fast.
  7. Getting
    Your Feet Wet With Ruby on Rails
    - Talking about getting on your feet fast,
    this one from Webmonkey promises to get them wet too!
  8. How to
    make a todo list program with Rails
    - Another excellent introductory
    tutorial that actually helps you build something useful!
  9. Ajax
    on Rails
    - Curtis Hibbs offers part 3 of his look at RoR
  10. Many
    to Many Tutorial for Rails (PDF)
    - is a nice document that begins to delve
    into some of the more complex parts of web application programming, but in fine
    Ruby on Rails manner, it’s really not too complicated!
  11. Distributing
    Rails Applications - A Tutorial
    - So now you’ve built your RoR application,
    how to you push it to a production server? This tutorial covers the bases.
  12. Installing Ruby on
    Rails with Lighttpd and MySQL on Fedora Core 4
    - and of course this list
    wouldn’t be complete without a shameless bit of self-promotion, this tutorial
    promises what it says. Other install tutorials can be found here, here and here!

Happy Rails developing and if you have any other tutorials that you’d like to
share, please leave them in the comments!

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