Getting Back into Rails

I always come back to it. Rails is the only programming language I find it fun to hack around with. Even writing little apps that do pretty much nothing. It’s fun.

My favorite resource is Why’s (poignant) guide to ruby I’m sure I’d read it even if it were about nothing. I love that someone thought of writing a programing guide like a comic strip. And writing it like a human. It’s a story, not an instruction manual.

Second, Build your own Ruby On Rails Web Application is free for the next 26 days. Even if you don’t plan on using it anytime soon, grab it while it’s free. It explains how to write a digg clone in rails. Just skipping around though, you start to figure out how to code the essentials of any web app.

Finally, I always turn to Creating a weblog in 15 minutes, a screencast from David Heinemeier Hansson. Just watch it a few times, follow along, and you’ll start to figure out the basics, and pick apart the ideas he puts out and turn them around to do what you need with your own web app.

If I come up with anything clever in rails, I’ll post about it. My host still doesn’t support rails though…