Learning Ruby has been on my 43 Things list for some time now. The programming that I do for work is mostly PHP and in my free time I try to study more advanced PHP and MySQL concepts and topics. But something got to me today, perhaps reading one too many Digg.com posts about Ruby, or posts about other frameworks trying to imitate Rails (i.e. CakePHP), I decided that it was time to start my first tutorial, Rolling with Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs available on the O’Reilly OnLAMP site. So far, I have everything installed on my local machine and managed to make it halfway through the tutorial while at the same time listening to the David Heinemeier RUC video on the Ruby on Rails home page. It’s late, fatigue is setting in, but this is exciting stuff. I am tempted to keep studying for another few hours but another one of my goals happens to be to go to sleep earlier so it’s time to stop for the night. Anyhow, I took the first step towards learning RoR and am excited to continue my studies.
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Great to see you taking the plunge!
Be sure to take a look at the comment I just posted at the beginning of the discussion area of Rolling with Ruby on Rails. I posted a correction to the article that will be updated in the tutorial once my editor gets back from vacation. But, in the meantime, it’ll save you a little frustration if you know about this ahead of time.
Wow. First of all, thanks Curt! I was shocked to see your personal reply. I will check out the comments section on your article. Second, thank you for putting together such an excellent tutorial. As I said, I am very excited to learn more about Ruby and RoR. In fact, I’m off to finish your tutorial right now!
Cheers.
Brian
Awesome, dude. I’m excited to see you learning yet another exciting, emerging, web technology. I think RoR has a bright future ahead, and those of us who learn it now will stand to benefit most from its rise.
I wouldn’t kill off your PHP though. PHP is going to be here for a long time. The RoR work you do will likely be work where you’re convincing your clients of Ruby’s merits, going out on a limb to spread the gospel, as it were. I’m planning to be out there with you though.
Lately I’m having to strengthen my PHP and switch from mySQL to PostgresSQL (no big change) for my new job. In my spare time (10 minutes per day, 2 days per week ;)) I am dedicated to learning Actionscript 2.0 end to end, and then comes RoR. By this time next year, I hope to know both fairly well.
It’s great to have a colleague like you, with whom to share these crazy ventures into the unknown. This stuff is easy for the kiddos. For older farts like us, learning a new technology represents a significant time investment (plus it makes my brain hurt)!
Peace
//Geoff
Hey…who are you calling old? 😯
Well, I’m there with you. Take this AJAX example, sub out the .NET for RoR, and I believe you are looking at the future of web design. Of course, Flash remoting has been around for years. Assuming the AJAX paradigm sticks, you may be able to get a lot of mileage out of those new ActionScript skills.