Beginning Rails 3

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1. thieleSep 2011
   Thanks man!

   The latest go-round of learning rails started in mid-February. After working through building a basic blog in the 'Beginning Rails 3' book, I started working on Favsi. I had the majority of Favsi done in a couple of months but a few small details ended up taking quite a bit of time to figure out.

   I highly recommend Rails and the "Beginning Rails 3" book. I listed out a bunch of other resources I used in this list: http://favsi.com/justinthiele/thank-you-seriously

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2. athstJun 2011
   I recently used the Apress book "Beginning Rails 3," and I thought it was very well done and easy to understand for a beginner. It takes you through the building of a basic blog application and touches on pretty much all the important areas. I found the more involved tutorials on the web a little hard to follow for some reason.

   After you have the basic understanding from a book or otherwise, the best thing to do is just start on your own project and rely on Google/Stack Overflow when you hit a roadblock.

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3. freddealmeidaFeb 2011
   I would suggest you start with the core book:

   --Agile Web Development with Rails (Fourth Edition)

   --Rails Tutorial w. Rails 3 is very good.

   --Beginning Rails 3 by Carneiro and Barazi is excellent

   --The Rails 3 Way by Fernandez is difficult if not expanding

   --Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails by Dix is impressive and thorough

   --Rails Antipatterns is a great look at refactoring Ruby

   --Refactoring by Fields, Harview, Fowler, Beck is good.

   --Metaprogramming in ruby by Perrotta is exciting.

   These are specifically Rails 3 (or touch on it). There are many more great books.

   I'm also a large fan of peepcode and expect more rails 3 content coming in the following months (weeks?)

   Hartl has created a series of videos worth watching (though I have not bought them yet). But if they are anything like his books then you can expect excellent quality for the price.

   My suggestion is to look at supporting technologies while you are learning ruby and rails. Such as Jquery, backbone.js or mustache.js which will give you supporting templates.

   Also pick up the rspec book and the git book and try to integrate this into your coding practices.

   Goodluck

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4. thebiglebrewskiApr 2014
   Samsung Series 7 750 27" monitor, box of business cards, "rolodex" (just a stack of cards), my macbook pro 13", WD my passport for time machine backup, a projector that we barely use but has some cables on top of it that go with it, an NYCDA t-shirt, The Book of Ruby, Beginning Rails 3, Stylin' with CSS, AngularJS Directives, Wired Magazine, buckyballs, a Sphero I barely use, a stamp, an ink well for the stamp, a pen, a little thing of vaseline, and an iPod shuffle charger for my waterproof guy I use while swimming

   That specific enough for ya?

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5. trustfundbabyMar 2013
   For Rails, I'd recommend, in this order

   1. Agile Web Development with Rails 2. The Rails Way

   I've heard good things about "Beginning Rails 3", but I haven't read it myself, I'd pop that up to the top of the list if Agile Web Development with Rails isn't working for you.

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6. sc00terJan 2012
   Worse still, I started off with Beginning Rails 3 by Apress, and it makes only one obscure reference to attr_accessible, and not in the context of security, doesn't mention mass assignment at all, and has no chapter on even basic security. Beginners need to learn this stuff early, so Apress' oversight is unforgivable. mhartl OTOH is to be applauded.
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