From: Matt Todd <chiology@...>
Date: 2006-09-26T12:19:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails for the Rubyist

> > 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'".
> > 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." :)


Here is a little diagram I created specifically for my MVC framework
(one I wrote for PHP5) which is very similar to Rails:

http://c.anvas.es/docs/images/flow_of_a_request.png

As far as learning Rails, just gleaning through the Agile Web Dev w/
Rails book is probably your best bet, and experimenting. I know the
Rails Recipes book is really good, though, and will answer a lot of
the questions you might have as well. It's learning by example.

M.T.