From: Scott Taylor Date: 2007-04-07T17:44:04+09:00 Subject: Re: A few beginners questions On Apr 7, 2007, at 4:27 AM, John Joyce wrote: > While Rails does let you skip most of the JavaScript and SQL work, > you can't do it forever. > To really understand what you're doing you should learn a little > bit of it. You don't have to be an expert at it to use it, but you > would be doing yourself a disservice by avoiding those topics. SQL > more so than JS. JS is pretty easy if you've done any C / PHP / > Perl type of programming. > On Apr 7, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Scott Taylor wrote: > I think "a little bit of it", at least for sql, would be some theory on normalization of databases and foreign keys. Or put another way, keep DRY in your databases as well as your code. Scott >> >> Sounds like Rails would be good for getting you started on some of >> this stuff. With rails you can avoid SQL and Javascript directly, >> since you can use the scriptaculous AJAX library in ruby (with >> rails). >> >> But as has been noted several times, you probably won't be good at >> this stuff in 2-3 months. You probably won't even be good at even >> *one* of these things in 2-3 months. Experience is the best >> trainer. So just start building something in rails after you have >> gone through a short tutorial. >> >> Scott >> >> >> >> On Apr 6, 2007, at 11:28 AM, wannaberor wrote: >> >>> Guys, >>> >>> What is http://start.clickuni.com developed in? >>> >>> Also, what path do you suggest for me to start learning AJAX and >>> Ruby? >>> >>> Do you suggest I independently learn JavaScript, XML and CSS and hit >>> AJAX and then Ruby? I'm already familiar with some ruby. >>> >>> Any sources, info, tips.. asbolutely anything at all would be very >>> welcome. >>> >>> -- >>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >>> >> >> > >