Free Rails Tutorial from Upcoming Rails Book
Posted by Daniel Butler Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:37:00 GMT
Jeremy McAnally has a new Ruby on Rails book in the works, joining the minions about to be released. Entitled Mr. Neighborly’s Relevant Ramblings, Pointed Pontifications, and Thought Theories on Ruby & Rails, the self-published book will be based on Rails 1.1 and Ruby 1.8.4. The first chapter, a 60-page Rails tutorial is available for free on the web.
The tutorial serves as a thorough introduction to Ruby syntax, classes, methods, modules, and things like regular expressions, spelled out clearly with a rich sauce of examples. So, if you found Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby just too “entertaining” a way to learn Ruby, or you don’t won’t your boss to think you’re having too much fun on the job, give this one a try.
I was skeptical at first of this book, but I thought, eh, why the heck not! A free chapter on Ruby. I read it and I was very impressed. It explained the language in a very natural way. I’m excited about reading additional chapters, if not just splurging and buying the book.