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Sunday, May 11 2008
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Curt Hibbs has written Rolling with Ruby on Rails, a tutorial on Ruby on Rails for O'Reilly OnLAMP. (Amusing fact: LAMP is an acronym for the triumvirate+1 of Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP. I am perfectly willing to admit that I am, in fact, easily amused, but I think that this is kinda funny.) It's a good tutorial. Good as it is, though, it's not perfect (hell, what is?). But hooray for imperfection, because it spurred me to write. The Review It's actually a pretty good article, the one with the most depth and breadth that I've seen at this point, and I used it to explore Rails last night. If you already know and understand programming concepts like database connectivity, object orientation, variables, loops, etc., then it's a good place to start to get your hands dirty. After having actually produced some code, even if it was guided, I now have a better grounded understanding of Rails and that makes it easier to read the dry (not DRY, alas) documentation. The only thing is, like all tutorials, it doesn't always explain why. Why is that the syntax? What does that line mean, exactly? Why is the application designed so it fits together that way? Me, I like to know why—in reality, because of my designer brain, I have to know why to really grok it and retain it. |
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