From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-01-26T00:46:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails, how do people figure out how to use it?

anne001 wrote:
> Lately I have been trying various things and I am amazed at what all
> the new technology requires from people.

Many, if not most, open-source tools and libraries are written by geeks 
for geeks.  Even when people take the time to write proper documentation 
there are often many, many assumptions made about the audience.  Most 
assume that people are running on some *nix variant, know their way 
around the command line, have root access, a C complier, and a working 
knowledge of some ancillary technology (SQL, regular expressions, HTML, 
etc.)

You best bet for getting going with Rails is to get the Rails book from 
Pragmatic Press, and join the Rails dev mailing list

http://list.rubyonrails.org

The Rails community is warm and welcoming to newcomers and will gladly 
help you get up to speed.



James Britt