Ruby on Rails Beginners Handout Fear of Fish

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Ruby on Rails Beginners Handout

December 27th, 2006

I put together (almost should I say, it needs completing) a handout for a training session I did down in London recently, and would like to offer it out as a helping hand to those new to Ruby on Rails. I had a chunk of help structuring it from David Black, and shall therefore plug his book as a recommendation: Ruby for Rails.

The handout covers the basics of Ruby as well as Rails, and I hope it helps more people get into the framework quicker than had they not had it, or hadn't read anything, or...um, here's the handout:

Download link: Introduction to Rails Handout

Categorised: Ruby on Rails

4 Responses to “Ruby on Rails Beginners Handout”

Alastair Mucklow said on: December 28th, 2006 at 09:16 PM
Hi Jamie

Thanks for this handout. I was at your lecture down in London (I guess the same one) and found it very useful on Ruby on Rails and Web 2.0. I've started to learn the basics of the Ruby language, and will keep checking your site.

Liking the new site design by the way!

Alastair
Jamie van Dyke said on: December 29th, 2006 at 04:21 PM
I'd love to take credit for the design, Alastair, but it's the default theme for Mephisto now, I just reverted to it till I have time to sit down and make a custom one.

I'm glad to hear you're moving forward since the lecture/training day, if you have any questions just fire me an email and I'll do what I can to help you out.

Also, keep your eye on the Getting Started with Rails book I'm writing, I've been adding to it over Christmas a little; beefing up Chapter 2 - Ruby, which will be good for you. The changes I've made aren't up yet, I'd like to get it nearer completion first.
Keith said on: January 6th, 2007 at 05:33 PM
Great start - looking forward to this progressing! Keep up the great work.
Ruby on Rails lover said on: March 11th, 2008 at 08:49 AM
Great framework with great contributors

Jamie van Dyke

Jamie van Dyke has been a Rails developer since the beginning of 2005, working with some of the major players in the web market. He also played a large part in the documenting of Rails for the Caboose Documentation Project and teaches others on his blog and in training sessions around the world. Jamie is a core Rails contributor, and the publisher of multiple gems and plugins.

I'm a father of 2, living in a little village called Skipton which is in North Yorkshire, England. Anything else you'd like to know you can ask. Check out my photo and info at the caboose facebook or my flickr page.

Jamie is also unsure why he must write a Bio in third person, and doesn't really have a fear of fish, he just dislikes the taste and smell of them.

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