Comments on: Roadmap for Learning Rails

By: Rooby G

Rooby G — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:50:34 +0000

I think the easiest way to get to Rails or Django or other similar framework is to start by learning HTML, then CSS, then Javascript, then PHP + MySQL, then Rails/Django/etc.
HTML will teach you basic web markup. CSS will teach you basic design. Javascript, basic interactive functions in the browser. PHP, server-side knowledge and how to create dynamic pages. MySQL, for how databases work and how to use them in CRUD situations, or more elaborate ones.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:39:48 +0000

This is an excellent post. I appreciate coming across this resource. I have searched the web for similar posts on how a beginner “non-programmer” should ideally get up to speed on Rails and nothing else comes close. I am also happy to see that your recommended path is very similar to what I have been outlining for myself. Thanks.

By: Shahid K

Shahid K — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:39:45 +0000

Brilliant work man, I’ve been looking and searching for something like this for quite some time now. Things can get a lot confusing for the beginners, and the more they read the more muddy it seems to get. This is very helpful, Thanks!

By: Pete Dunham

Pete Dunham — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:04:35 +0000

Wyatt,

Ma’te, listen ! This is excellent roadmap.

I am seasoned developer, also web developer. I coded JAVA and I used to teach JAVA.
[ Struts, Servlets, Tomcat, some others, etc.etc.]

So, I know how to learn from my experience. Also, I know what difficulties that people face with during their learning, especially programming.

I started learning ruby and ruby on rails and come across your article.
I didn’t get into rails first, since – as you say – it might be confusing.

I definitely agree that ruby skills are very important for rails, or for being in the ruby world.
[ web development or not ]

I have written a Tetris game with ruby using Goshu game library. It was nice and fun experience.

I started reading rails guides, did something very basic, like small web applications, used RVM on Ubuntu etc.etc.
All these ruby, ruby on rails, gem and code reading stuff.

After all these personal buzz:
Since I am in the phase of shining my ruby skills and learning rails I will follow your roadmap.

PS: Thanks a lot for including nanoc here, it definitely is very important, I do totally agree. Also, I was going to use Jekyll for my blog and company articles but after seeing nanoc, I have decided to use nanoc. It is really cool one.

There is a lot to write about this learning process but I better stop now

All The Best,
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By: techiferous

techiferous — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:09:26 +0000

@Jack: Wonderful! I’m glad you found value in this; that’s exactly why I wrote this.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:36:47 +0000

As a complete beginner it was difficult to find this kind of straightforward advice on how to approach learning RoR. Thank you so much for the direction.

By: rob

rob — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:07:42 +0000

Yes, I agree Wyatt. depends on your intention. I found some of your articles are helpful and inspiring. thanks for sharing.

By: techiferous

techiferous — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:05:17 +0000

@rob This article is aimed at someone aspiring to master Rails. To have mastery means you need to at least dabble in peripheral technologies in order to make decisions with good context. If you don’t have the goal of becoming a professional Rails developer then yes, I agree that you can learn only what you need for whatever you are trying to accomplish.

By: rob

rob — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:11:40 +0000

Thanks, but I dont believe this. you can just have basic HTML and CSS knowledge. Learn only the core, and only what you need. dont learn too much stuff that you dont need. Eg. If you create want to write a book. just need to learn how to write and be focus on the idea of the books, you dont need to learn the publishing stuff.

By: Mike Pakhomov

Mike Pakhomov — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:01:50 +0000

Thank you! Excelent post!