How to learn Ruby on Rails?

Question

Ruby on Rails

I have been studying programming for four years: Turpo Pascal, Java SE. Developed many projects for myself. As I think, I got involved in programming quite well, but I have no experience in web development. I learned the Ruby language, which I really liked, and wrote a good console application using OOP and pattern.
But when I started learning Rails from the book Ruby on Rails Tutorial (3rd Ed.), I couldn't understand what I was doing and why I needed all this.
Switched to creating a test blog using gem jekyll. By making minor changes (css, html) and understanding what I was doing, I achieved a beautiful design .
Now I installed another gem MiddleMan, but I don't understand how to start the page layout and how to populate the site.
Tell me what to study in such a situation and what projects to work on.

Answer 1

Finally figured out the book "Rails 4. Agile Web Application Development".
I have already written my first serious application, if you are interested, write)

Answer 2

As I did, off tutorials on rails, rails for zombies, we start to cut at least something ourselves without any left gems that are not registered in the Gemfile with rails new, after we learn testing (before that, it’s not enough to understand mvc, migrations), routing, testing , you just need to know at least a little ruby ​​first. We take a test task for a junior on rails, we saw what we don’t know - we teach. I think to go this way, what is already ready, and what else will he offer to learn, and be sure to learn how to read the documentation (if you don’t have this skill).

Answer 3

What exactly is not clear?
First, you most likely need to set up a working environment there just to start the rails,
then most likely you need to create a database and tables that will be used,
then most likely comes scaffolding - code generation, to work with tables in the database - code for writing, reading, and etc.

Answer 4

And the course www.lynda.com/Ruby-Rails-tutorials/Ruby-Rails-4-Es helped me and my friend...
I tried to start learning rails several times, but it turned out approximately your story. But after this course - everything fell into place!

Answer 5

I started with this site railstutorial.ru