From: Philip Hallstrom <ruby@...>
Date: 2006-09-26T08:16:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails for the Rubyist

> understand it) helps Rails developers learn Ruby.
>
> What's the best source for the opposite? Learning Rails for those who
> already know Ruby? I'm frustrated by the number of intro tutorials to
> rails that have things like "I learned that @foo is called an 'instance
> variable'".
>
> I'm not sure what form this should take, but some insight into the
> inner workings (dispatch diagrams, how/when rails reloads files, etc.)
> seem to be in order.
>
> While I'm asking for some me-centric stuff, how about the best resource
> for "Rails for the veteran web developer who's used to rolling every
> bit of HTML and CSS and JS by hand and is having trouble learning to
> re-use existing helper methods, and is instead spending gobs of time
> writing 'convenience' methods when that time should be spent cranking
> out the site." :)

I found the pragmatic books to be pretty good...

http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr/index.html

I didn't know ruby before rails, but did read through the free programming 
ruby book and a couple of other references on ruby first... i believe one 
of the above books had a ruby appendix...

There's a section on action-view which has all the helper methods in it. 
and I got in the habit of every time I thought there should be a helper to 
do this would go and look if that was indeed the case... usually there 
was, sometimes not though.

-philip