[Ruby] Greetings from Alaska

[Jake Jacobsen]

Neil,

The best book is Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition. Right now
the second edition is only out in pdf. But all of the Pragmatic Programmer
books on ruby and rails are good. (http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/)

There are some good on ruby online at http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ and
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

As for IDEs, I use RadRails, which is built on Eclipse. I know there are
others out there, but RadRails has worked well for me. (
http://www.radrails.org/)

Also, for windows there is InstantRails that has
Ruby/Rails/Apache/MySql/Php/phpMySqlAdmin all bundled together in a nice
package and there is nothing to install, just drop it in any folder and
start it up.

-Jake

On 9/28/06, Neil Moomey <neil at motznik.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone.  I signed up for this list because I'm learning Ruby on Rails
> and this is closest Ruby group I could find to my home in Anchorage, AK.
> I've been programming mostly web stuff full time for about seven years
> now.
> My coworker and I just convinced our boss to let us give Ruby on Rails a
> try.  We are currently using ASP.NET with C#.  I also have experience with
> PHP, Java and a tad Python.  I work for a small Data warehousing company.
> Most of my work is db related.  (MySQL and SQL Server) I was a member of
> the
> SEAJUG list for years and was very impressed with the caliber of
> programmers
> in the Seattle area.  I hope you don't mind if I join in on your
> discussions.
>
> My first question is what books and resources would you recommend?  I
> would
> like a quick review of the basics without having to learn programming from
> scratch.  I also enjoy learning by example so lots of code is good.
>
> I'm finding Ruby very easy to pick up but Rails is a bit different than
> ASP.NET.  In ASP.NET the elements on a web page are treated as objects.
> HTML Tables, labels, text boxes etc.  I can set visible to false, change
> their properties etc which I found useful.  How is this done in Rails?
>
> What IDE are most people using?
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
>
> Neil Moomey
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