Total newb questions - resources or tutorials?

I've been searching (the forum and the web) for a while without joy so I was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction.

I am new to OOP and Ruby. I want to start writing some simple web apps and identified RoR as a good platform for the type of stuff I want to do. FWIW I have decent HTML and CSS skills and some SQL experience but little knowledge of much else.

I am in the process of setting up a box to run RoR but am slightly stumped as where to go next. I don't have enough coding experience to jump into the projects I have in mind nor enough familiarity with using MVC pattern to exploit an OOP language powerfully.

So I am looking for some step-by-step tutorials that walk me through building an app to get a bit more of a feel for OOP and Ruby. Something akin to this (a CSS tutorial I found great -

) would be awesome. Can anyone recommend something/somewhere that is pitched at someone without an OOP background? Budget is an issue so face to face training is out unfortunately, but I would buy books if you think they would help me.

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Fat Al wrote:

I've been searching (the forum and the web) for a while without joy so I was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction.

I am new to OOP and Ruby. I want to start writing some simple web apps and identified RoR as a good platform for the type of stuff I want to do. FWIW I have decent HTML and CSS skills and some SQL experience but little knowledge of much else.

I am in the process of setting up a box to run RoR but am slightly stumped as where to go next. I don't have enough coding experience to jump into the projects I have in mind nor enough familiarity with using MVC pattern to exploit an OOP language powerfully.

So I am looking for some step-by-step tutorials that walk me through building an app to get a bit more of a feel for OOP and Ruby. Something akin to this (a CSS tutorial I found great - learn web standards :: hands on css tutorial ) would be awesome. Can anyone recommend something/somewhere that is pitched at someone without an OOP background? Budget is an issue so face to face training is out unfortunately, but I would buy books if you think they would help me.

Thank you in advance for any advice.   

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