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Hi, I am a student, I got an assignment, to create a twitter kind of social networking site, I am totally new on ruby on rails, I don't know how to start working on it. Any suggestion?

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to create a full flash site like twitter is hard for a new bie Try make a simple one in a starting

http://www.noupe.com/ajax/create-a-simple-twitter-app.html

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I'd strongly recommend you to take a look at the ruby language first. At least the main features. There's a nice guide[1] for this. There's also a book with the same name.

Ok, before anything else, you MUST read the Rails guides. Getting started guide will give you pretty much everything you need to get yourself in the road. After that, I suggest you to get the "Agile Web Development with Rails"[2] book.

Hope it helps.

[1]http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ [2]http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Web-Development-Rails-Third/dp/1934356166/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

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rajeevsharma86 wrote:

to create a full flash site like twitter

Twitter doesn't use Flash. Come back when you actually have something accurate to say.

is hard for a new bie Try make a simple one in a starting

A Simple Twitter App with Ruby on Rails - Messages With Ajax - noupe

Best,

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I'd strongly recommend you to take a look at the ruby language first.

There are 2 Ruby versions to look at if you are new, 1.8 and 1.9. Ruby 1.9 really is a step forward from 1.8, but there are 2 problems: 1) Ruby 1.9.1 segfaults with Rails, and 2) 1.9.2 isn't out yet.

So your choices are to stick with 1.8.7 (which has seen some backports from 1.9) or man up and use Ruby 1.9.2-RC2. That seems stable enough. Anyway, don't use 1.9.1 for Rails.

Ok, before anything else, you MUST read the Rails guides.

Same story, Rails 2.3.x is the stable one, but Rails 3 is just around the corner. Some apps are already using Rails 3 for production, so if you are absolutely new to it, learn that.

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Pablo Torres N. wrote: [...]

Same story, Rails 2.3.x is the stable one, but Rails 3 is just around the corner. Some apps are already using Rails 3 for production, so if you are absolutely new to it, learn that.

No. If you're new to Rails, learn 2.3, the stable version that people are actually using. Deal with bleeding-edge Rails 3 when it's actually stable and ready for release.

Best,

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hey Marnen Laibow-Koser, ****i am sorry for that flash means in that mail “Complete” . the acctual line should be there is this "to create a full flash/(Complete) site like twitter" sorrry to all for incomplete sentance