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I’m considering learning rails for a new project. Also coming from a .NET background. Any good resources you can recommend?

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YouTube is your friend:

GoRails (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIQmhQxCvLHRr3Beku77tww)

Drifting Ruby (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxJaNyXCQw0mghY0hA1wA9w)

Railscasts Reloaded (https://www.youtube.com/user/RailscastsReloaded)

OMG! Railscasts got me through so much in the early days. I didn't realize that they were on YouTube. Nice!

This is the defacto learning guide https://www.railstutorial.org/, although not currently updated for Rails 6.

Oh I totally missed his reply in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20718729 (currently at the top)

I switched from .NET to rails. agree with the other comments about rails tutorial. It is excellent but don’t forget the rails guides (guides.rubyonrails.org).

If you already understand MVC (for example if you’ve worked with .NET’s MVC offering) reading rails guides will serve you very well.

> I’m considering learning rails for a new project. Also coming from a .NET background. Any good resources you can recommend?

Yes, learn anything else other than Rails or Ruby. It was never good, just well promoted. I haven't checked on it recently, and I'm sure there are improvements, but there are so many better options today (e.g., .NET, Python, Node), it's hard to see a good reason to take up Ruby or Rails.

I think I have a good enough reason. I’d like to pursue a remote job as a backend engineer. Most interesting job listings are for rails or go. I’m not particularly fond of go, so I’m trying out rails. Who knows - maybe I’ll hate it.

I also recommend the Rails Tutorial; it covers a lot in a short amount of time.

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