From: Kevin McCaughey <lists@...>
Date: 2012-04-26T22:58:43+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby, need install advice

For Ruby I highly recommend: Programming Ruby 1.9, Dave Thomas 
(Pragmatic Press). I did Lynda.com's Ruby tutorial first, though started 
reading this book part of the way through the tutorial and that really 
made me realise just how good the book is.

The way I am feeling about Rails right now I am probably not a good 
person to recommend anything on it. It is a real frustration to get 
working, and I dread to think how you would get it working with your 
current setup. It comes with Webrick as default. RoR is a whole level of 
complexity above Ruby, and you might want to have fun in Ruby before you 
get frustrated with Rails.

For a good overview of how RoR works (and I would recommend this before 
even attempting to do anything in it) you can listen to the Learning 
Rails podcasts: http://www.buildingwebapps.com/learningrails

These I found to be the clearest on explaining how it works. From there 
I then did various screencasts and books, but to be honest found most of 
it either contradictory or confusing. The reason for this is that there 
are so many changed, some undocumented, that whatever you are reading, 
in print or on the web, might not be the right version number. Be very 
careful you do not end up with a Version 2 book for example, as this 
will lead you right up the wrong path.

Good luck! :)

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