From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-05-04T01:37:02+09:00
Subject: Re: School teacher still at it learning programming language

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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Hilary Bailey <my77elephants@gmail.com>wrote:

> Now I while glimpsing at the beauty of Ruby, there is the software of
> Rails. I downloaded it from from the c:\ using gem install rails, then
> typed in rails mydiary and got a whole lot of create ...... listing.
> NOW, how do I use Rails. Is it a program that I can see and maneuver
> from Windows (like Excel), or from SciTe or fxri. Where do I go from
> here. Note I am using the ref book: Beginning Ruby from Novice to
> Professional.
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
Rails is a framework for programming web applications. That means it helps
you write a Ruby program that works on the internet (in your case, you write
it in SciTe, though I'm not sure whether SciTe is able to deal with large
directories very well). So you're writing your files in SciTe, but it also
provides you a  bunch of command line utilities. You can see them in the
folder mydiary/script, and a bunch of rake tasks you can get from the
command line with $ rake -T

If I were to try and explain it in a sentence, I'd say it's a bunch of
conventions, libraries, and tools for building a web application.

If this is really what you want to do, I suggest you start with Sinatra and
move up to Rails when you are ready, Rails is big and full of magic. But if
you really want to learn Rails, then the best resource I know of is the
guides http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ They are really exceptionally well
done. There is a lot of reading in there, but it's packed full of relevant
information, well organized, and presented in such a way to be easier to
consume.

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