shusseina
(shusseina)
July 18, 2009, 4:14pm
1
I am a Ruby/Rails newby, currently reading "Simply Rails 2" by Patrick
Lenz. While I am finding it worthwhile I was hoping others could
recommend other good books and online tutorials for learning Rails.
I have read up about Ruby online, so I think I know enough Ruby for
the time being.
In some ways the strength of Rails is also its weakness, at least for
a newby, as it is a little difficult to piece together everything
Rails does so well under the hood.
Thanks
guides.rubyonrails.org would be a good place to start.
shusseina
(shusseina)
July 27, 2009, 1:43am
3
Thanks Philip.
I found the following articles on Rails routing useful, particularly
the last two:
"A Brief Introduction to REST"
In this article, Stefan Tilkov provides a pragmatic introduction to REST (REpresentational State Transfer), the architecture behind the World Wide Web, and covers the key principles: Identifiable resources, links and hypermedia, standard methods,...
"An Introduction to REST"
http://bitworking.org/news/373/An-Introduction-to-REST
"Representational State Transfer"
Representational state transfer (REST) is a software architectural style that describes a uniform interface between physically separate components, often across the Internet in a Client-Server architecture. REST defines four interface constraints:
Generally REST describes a machine to machine interface. In web development REST allows content to be rendered when it's requested, often referred to as Dynamic Content. RESTful Dynamic content uses server-side rendering to generate a web site and send...
"How to GET a Cup of Coffee"
In this article, Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis and Ian Robinson show how to drive an application's flow through the use of hypermedia in a RESTful application, using the well-known example from Gregor Hohpe's "Starbucks does not use...
"Rails Routing from the Outside In"
Rails Routing from the Outside InThis guide covers the user-facing features of Rails routing.After reading this guide, you will know: How to interpret the code in config/routes.rb. How to construct your own routes, using either the preferred...
Hope the above is useful to others.