Intermediate level tutorials

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Hi I'm hoping somebody can suggest an intermediate level tutorial or point me in the right direction. I'm a moderately experienced programmer (20 + years off and on) but I'm really struggling to get to grips with Web/RoR development. I'm reasonably familiar with Python and am getting familiar with Ruby. Having just spent a whole day trying to get a button to call a method in a controller I'm clearly missing some fundamental knowledge.

I've worked through a few of the many tutorials with few problems (wrong Rails version mostly) but they all seem pretty basic. On the otherhand discussions on here mostly seem to assume more than I know!

So - any conversion tutorials out there for procedural, non-web developers?

Thanks in advance Ian

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Well, have a try at http://paperc.de where you can read whole books online for free. It's a German site, but has a lot of english titles. Just search for ruby on rails. 'Suchen' means search in German :slight_smile:

I don't know their business model but it's really great.

Rajiv

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This book is quite useful, you can just get the PDF version if you wish:

This is a useful place to get info:

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I agree with Victor, it's a very good book.

But perhaps you can start with a very good starting book that I bought before the mentioned book. It's Head First Rails. It has a very interesting learning concept which cleared a lot of web concept to me

Good luck

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Thanks for the replies. I'll give both the books a read. My gaps do seem to be as much Web related as Rails.

Ian