Hey, I was wondering if someone would help me out through Skype a little teaching thing. I just need a little push in the right direction so if you could please email me @: matcsimpson@gmail.com thank you
I recommend the rails tutorial at:
the tutorial is great and helped me a lot.
I concur. It can take you from practically no experience of Rails right through set-up, gems, bundler, rake, Git, heroku, scaffolding, the MVC schema & more all explained in a clear, concise manor.
Highly recommended.
Cheers,
Phil...
You may also want to check Rails Mentors - http://www.railsmentors.org/ to find someone closer to you/in your timezone who will be available to help you out if/when you get stuck somewhere.
You can also go through the Zero to Rails 3 training videos from EngineYard. Here’s the link for the videos - http://www.engineyard.com/ruby_on_rails_training/learn_rails3
Chirag http://sumeruonrails.com
In addition to what others have said, if you can clarify your needs we may be able to help you right here. What specific thing are you having trouble with? (If it's pretty much everything, let's start with the most fundamental one; solving that may solve other things too.) What have you tried, that didn't work? What did it do instead?
-Dave
Dave Aronson wrote in post #1033987:
Hey, I was wondering if someone would help me out through Skype a little teaching thing.
In addition to what others have said, if you can clarify your needs we may be able to help you right here. What specific thing are you having trouble with? (If it's pretty much everything, let's start with the most fundamental one; solving that may solve other things too.) What have you tried, that didn't work? What did it do instead?
-Dave
Well Dave I'm not sure on how to explain but....Here we go.
So, I'm new to it all starting out with only some HTML knowledge. I want to find ways to challenge myself to be able to make my first website or a new program BUT I'm really REALLY slow at learning all this. I've spent almost 4-5 weeks just TRYING to get RoR to work with IDE's and found out that I need only the Terminal but how do I make the site..How does it transfer... So that's why I asked if someone would like to get on skype with me so I can ask the person the questions. I'm probably missing out on a lot of stuff but if you have something else I should know I'll take it.
As mentioned before, this tutorial will answer all those questions:
<http://ruby.railstutorial.org/>
Have you visited this site yet?
Cheers,
Phil.
As in, you've never written a *program* (as opposed to a *web page*) before? Okay, that's a lot more fundamental than I was thinking of. There are many web sites that teach you to program, some using Ruby, such as http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/.
Or do you mean you've programmed, but all you know about how web pages work, is HTML? There are many web pages that teach you how a web server serves up a web page. Googling "how web requests work" (sans quotes) should get you some good results.
After either of those paths, you can try some of the web pages that teach you Rails, such as Michael Hartl's "Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example", or "Rails for Zombies". If you didn't learn Ruby "above", then some of these will teach you enough Ruby to get by, but you'd probably be better off learning Ruby before this point.
Also see the Rails Guides that others have mentioned, though it can be pretty heavy reading for someone new to either programming or web apps.
Along the way you'll probably have some specific questions. You can ask Rails questions here; more generic Ruby questions should go in the Ruby mailing list, which you can find at ruby-lang.org. However, it can be hard sometimes to tell which is which, so don't worry about it too much.
-Dave
