Where to learn more?

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Hello everyone, I’m new at this group and i’m very glad I found it. My name is Andres, and I has been learning rails since the last year. I have read a lot about CRUD operation, models, controllers, views, helpers, ActiveMailer and a few thing of ActibeJobs, but i want to go deeper than that. Can you give some advise about what to read/watch? It could be books, videos, courses (free or at least cheap ones). Any help would be good. Thank you!

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Join an open source project. Or create your own rails app. You’ll learn way more by doing than by reading about it.

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Welcome, Andres,

You ask a very common question; here’s what I would suggest beyond the usual RailsTutorial, Agile Web Dev in RoR, and Rails 4 in Action books.

First, Joe’s suggestion to join an existing project is a very good one. It’s easier said than done, of course, there aren’t many that just spring to mind, but there’s a few:

  1. Rails, itself; learning how Rails works and contributing to its development will teach a lot

  2. Head over to http://www.opensourcerails.com/ to see a bunch of OSS Rails applications

Other books that may help:

  1. POODR (Sandi Metz)

  2. Eloquent Ruby (Ross Olsen)

  3. The Well-Grounded Rubyist (David Black)

  4. Practicing Rails (Justin Weiss)

Ante up the $9 and watch all you can of RailsCasts, even though many are old, the concepts are still invaluable.

Head over to Avdi Grimm’s RubyTapas site and sign up; Avdi is offering some great deals on some coproductions with others, as well as a his own great set of small plates of ruby wisdom.

Learn more about Database design; Date’s books on understanding relational calculus are quite helpful, but very expensive since they’re university textbooks. I hope someone has some good suggestions here.

Learn about the frontend design enough to be able to talk to frontend developers and designers. It’s a language we all need to share.

Find a local Rails / Ruby user group, meetup, etc. Get involved in the local development community.

And practice, practice, practice. Create toy apps, learn about N+1 problems, using state machines / workflow processes, form objects, service objects, background jobs, accessing other web services / APIs, writing APIs, debugging your applications, deploying Rails applications in various environments, …

so much to learn

Tamara