From: Huw Collingbourne Date: 2006-02-08T19:33:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Start from the start - Ruby or ruby on rails wrote in message news:1139392354.132788.204000@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... > Thanks to everybody for the recommendations. I had a lot of the links > lined up and ready to read , will jump into rails straight away. I am > still a little reluctant to start off my first real project with a > Database back end.I'm concerned that the design and management of the > database could add a serious jump in my already steep learning curve. > You may be interested to know that we shall shortly (within the next month or so) be starting a 'Programming Ruby' series on the Bitwise Magazine site www.bitwisemag.com . It is our intention to concentrate purely on the Ruby language for the first few months, only moving on to Rails (and a few other things) at a later stage. My own view is that while Rails may have, to large extent, generated a great deal of recent interest in Ruby, it is all too easy to become seduced by the special features of Rails for creating powerful applications with relatively little programming with the consequence that this may 'hide' the features of Ruby itself. We therefore decided that a logical approach for our coverage would be to concentrate entirely on the Ruby language initially and only move into graphical and web application development at a later stage. best wishes Huw Collingbourne ================================ Bitwise Magazine www.bitwisemag.com Dark Neon Ltd. ================================