From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-10-16T19:34:14+09:00
Subject: Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it.

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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> wrote:

>
> If you pick AWDwR you have a very balanced perspective on everything
> Rails in a few hours of reading. You have a teacher that has prepared
> the material properly. If you want to get the same knowledge by
> yourself reverse engineering Rails, good luck with that.
>
>
Though, if you're new to web development, then your background and knowledge
base are not the assumed defaults, and AWDWR will be, as Dave Howell said,
an unexpectedly unproductive experience.

If you got anything out of "a few hours of reading", than I am envious. I
spent months reading it, and got almost nothing out of it. To be fair, I had
no prior web experience, I had never seen MVC before, had never tested
before, it was my first time using a database, and my Ruby code looked a lot
like my C code.

For someone interested in ActiveRecord, I'd suggest watching the 15 minute
blog (http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_blog_2.mov), finding a bare
bones working AR implementation like this one (
http://www.themomorohoax.com/2009/03/15/activerecord-sqlite-in-memory-db-without-rails),
and then reading the guides.rubyonrails.org section on models, while
iteratively building the bare bones file up to do what you want.

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