Finally I intend to begin my journey on Rails (Ruby on Rails). After searching for some quick resources to learn Rails fast, I came across a good number of them which would be shared in this post.
I am hoping I can learn Ruby on Rails faster for the following 2 reasons
- I know Smalltalk(Squeak) and Seaside. Seaside is somewhat similar to Ruby on Rails when it comes to Deployment and I have fair experience in Deploying and load-balancing Seaside Website (Caartz) on a Ubuntu-Apache Dedicated Server.
- I know CodeIgniter, a kick-ass PHP framework whose Architecture has Ruby on Rails Idealogy such as DRY (Dont Repeat Yourselves) and Convention over Configuration , MVC architecture and also ActiveRecord method of dealing with your Database Query.
Lets begin it this way. The first Google result for “Rails Video Tutorial” was Screencasts page from RubyOnRails official website. The 15 minutes Blog video is truly impressive, but it doesn’t really help a beginner much other than just making his/her jaw drop down. I would recommend if you go through this video after gaining some insight into RoR.
One of the other Google Search result was Virtual Training Company. They specialize in online courses for all Software/Web technologies. The set of Video tutorials for Ruby on Rails has been developed by Mr. Al Anderson . They have some Free online Videos and for the rest of the package you need to register by paying certain amount. If you have bucks, do get yourselves registered and checkout the high-quality videos.
As an alternative to these paid videos, these have been uploaded on Youtube. The main problem with these videos are that since Youtube reduces the quality of the Videos uploaded, you probably cannot clearly makeout the code being typed/shown. Another possible problem to view on Youtube is that these videos (90+ in number) are all Titled “Ruby on Rails”, so its quite painful to go in a particular order.
I shall try to embed these Youtube Videos in individual posts with a short summary of the Video with a Table of Content(List of all the individual videos) in this post.
Disclaimer: The Screencasts are not recorded by me. I have just embedded them from Youtube. The original Videos area a part of Virtual Training Company, who give Online Training and the author for Ruby on Rails Series is Mr. Al Anderson. If you are benefited from these, you may register there by paying certain amount or order a CD from them.