Tom Czernik Learning Ruby on Rails 

Who am I?  Bavarian web developer  Study Multimediatechnology in master degree  Ruby on Rails since 3 years  @mindbreak  Small german rails blog: http://www.wrel.de 

What I am talking about  How to start  Guides  Make a little project  How to solve problems 

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…..?  … read a book  … start an new webproject  … take some lessons 

Get familiar with ruby 

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TryRuby  Web-based ruby shell  15 Minutes tutorial http://tryruby.org/ 

Install Rails http://www.railsinstaller.org/ 

Start a little project  Blog  Twitter clone  …..  Keep it just simple 

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Railsguides  Guides from the Rails-Team  Help to understand the parts of rails  Good way to start: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html (also with a step by step tutorial of a blog-system) 

 Screencasts about Ruby, Rails, Gems and more  Every week a free episode  Also pro / revised episodes  Well explanation, covers all you have to know  ~ 380 Episodes  www.railscasts.com 

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Codeacademy  Interactive guide to learn Ruby  Teach you how to code  Also webdevelopment basics like Javascript, HTML, CSS  http://www.codecademy.com/ 

Add functionality to your project • Example: Blog  Pagination: http://railscasts.com/episodes/51-will- paginate  Authentication: http://railscasts.com/episodes/209-introducing- devise  Gravatar: http://railscasts.com/episodes/244- gravatar 

Solving Problems  Stackoverflow.com – Q & A Site for programmers  Search for solution  Post your specific problem  Ask in boards  http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/rails  http://forum.ruby-portal.de/ 

Solving Problems  Gem specific:  Github Issues 

Links  http://tryruby.org/  http://www.railsinstaller.org/  http://guides.rubyonrails.org  www.railscasts.com  http://www.codecademy.com/