[Ask HN]: Best RoR references.

7 points·GrandMasterBirt··6 comments

I am trying to pick up ruby on rails (2.3) as fast as possible to get my feet off the ground making some code work. Can you guys recommend any resources that provide docs or tutorials which can help me get a good understanding of how RoR works and how to decode the magic behaviors?

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When I started learning Rails i just read through and followed the steps in here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

I ended up buying a couple books, but while being ok, weren't as good at addressing the fundamentals as the guides.rubyonrails.org site.

This is a great resource. A lot of the time, questions in #rubyonrails on Freenode are answered with a link to one of these guides.

I think it also helps to think of Rails' code as having conventions, rather than magic. The conventions are actually easy to learn and are quite consistent, stop telling yourself they're "magic".

See my comment here for a list of resources: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088887

And an addition to that list: http://www.railstutorial.org/book

Thanks, and thanks to everyone for the references. This will definitely help. bows before teh masterer

I learned with the Agile Web Development book, but it wasn't comprehensive. The Rails Way is a good book, but it's more of a reference than a guide.

http://gotapi.com is my go-to reference, and I spend a lot of time reading code that I want to learn something from.

You might take a look at http://railsapi.com. Click "build your custom package" to see what they provide.

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