top rubyonrails screencast/tutorials/blog url

Question

i am learning rubyonrails and referring http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ for documentations and http://railscasts.com/ for screencast. Are there more such useful sites that could help me to learn more on rubyonrails?

Answer 1

Here are some urls...

• http://rubyonrails.org/
• http://asciicasts.com/
• http://rails-bestpractices.com/
• http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-on-rails-uk
• http://rubyreflector.com/
• http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
• http://www.rubyinside.com/
• http://rubyquicktips.com/
• http://www.therailsway.com/
• http://api.rubyonrails.org/

Answer 2

Besides the tutorial and screencast sites around, I learned a lot by looking at other people's sourcecode of productive applications.

For example, Railscasts.com by Ryan Bates is open source. Further than that, there is a large collection of open source rails sites at opensourcerails.com, which itself is open source (and really helpful).

The similar structure of all rails applications makes it easy to understand the code - and in my opinion, it's great to see how the experts link their models and build up their application.

Answer 3

If you are completely new to Ruby on Rails, I strongly recommend you to diligently go through the Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl (that is available free online) and if you have the cash, spend it on the excellent screen-casts. I found his text and the screencasts to be very approachable and easily understood.

I myself have bought them and found them to be an excellent resource. (Even better than Agile Web Development with Rails in my opinion)

Only once you have understood the basics should you then consult the API as you have listed in your original post.

Answer 4

Code School is worth checking out. Their Rails For Zombies course is free and a great place to start learning rails. If you like their style they offer advanced rails courses. For $25 a month you get access to all of their courses.