Gain experience with Ruby/Rails?

Question

Ruby on Rails

I want to try to implement a project on Rails, or tell me which books are better to read, I know that everything is already outdated, but please advise what to read in Russian and what to read in English, and what resources will help, I know TryRuby , RailsForZombies , and others, tell me, what to start immediately.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Best of all guides.rubyonrails.org/ + www.manning.com/katz/ + railscasts.com
And then set yourself a goal and do it.

Answer 2

Now I am learning little by little. I can advise:
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial in Russian for the current version 3.1 (last chapter) in which you will be stretched through all the stages of creating a site
- Translation of the official guide from one of the habrousers.

Answer 3

Or you make a website for a good friend/relative who seems to need a website, but it’s a pity for the money.
1 friend when asp .net taught climbed to freelance and offered to make a website for $ 1

Answer 4

Why are all books outdated? Agile Web Development with Rails (4th edition) , electronic version is already Rails 3.1

Answer 5

By the way, I started learning RoR a long time ago, and I really liked one of the books. She was just "story". That is, it began with the fact that the boss sets a simple task, and the book describes how to solve it. Then the boss says everything is great, but some function is missing. As a result, it turns out that each chapter is read very meaningfully, you understand in advance the goal, what is taught there and why it is needed. Plus, you are doing some more or less useful site at this time.
Is there anything like that on the latest rails?

Answer 6

How is it better? set a problem and try to solve it... 80% of the answers are already on stackoverflow.com

Answer 7

Course " Engineering Long-Lasting Software: An Agile Approach Using SaaS and Cloud Computing (Beta Edition) ", which includes:
1) Video lectures . Lectures are divided into 5-10 minutes, you can right-click on the video and Save Video As ... save it in mp4 format. This is convenient for viewing on the go on your phone or tablet.
2) book for ipad: Engineering Long-Lasting Software by Armando Fox & David Patterson
3) book available in hard copy , and for Kindle and Nook
4) Ubuntu virtual machine with ruby ​​and rails 3 already installed and the project that is being done during the course :
- general information ,
- direct download link: from google appspot , torrent ,
- Screencast for setting up and running a virtual machine here
Administrator password for the saasbook
virtual machine This course seemed to me the best and most fundamental. Of course, Rails For Zombies 1 and 2 are a must try too.

Answer 8

I would advise you to choose an interesting project on github and modify or add new functionality. project. The fact is that if you just read books, then knowledge that is not fixed by practical experience disappears, but if you do your project from scratch, you just delve into your own mistakes, assumptions and illusions. And a good high-quality project allows you to adopt useful methods, techniques and a lot of different and useful, and most importantly, really working solutions. The measure of the understanding of the project will be the additional functionality you made.