From: Sascha Ebach <se@...>
Date: 2004-05-22T23:29:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Rails

Hi David,

David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
>> One thought that occurred to me while I was watching the video is that I
>> would really LOVE to see someone put together an entire course or two on
>> Ruby and distribute it online.
>>
>> What do y'all think?
> 
> 
> I think that's a great idea and I've already experimented with this a 
> bit. There's test on http://www.loudthinking.com/share/800x600.html 
> showing how 1 minute of tutorial can be compressed down to 1 MB.
> 
> My plan was to make a whole series of these for introducing all facets 
> of Rails in a form where it's very easy to follow along on your own. 
> This is a somewhat time-consuming endevour, so I don't know when it'll 
>be, though.

That is exactly what I meant. I think if you would do that you will have 
a _great_ advantage over other OS-Frameworks. It is, for a lot of 
people, so much easier to follow such a presentation than to read 
between the lines. Such video tutorials are a very powerful tool.

I don't know if it is more work than writing the documentation. It is of 
course a lot more work to do both.

I think I would be willing to contribute to such a project, making lots 
a small videos showing how things are done. What is holding me back for 
the moment is the hefty price of the software and the fact that I know 
almost nothing about Rails. What could be done would be to make an 
outline of what kinds of tutorials need to be done, a big list, and than 
one could pick a couple and do some...

Good luck with your exams.

Sascha