Favorite Ruby on Rails resources?

britishpandachick·Jan 24, 2020

One of my goals for 2020 is to learn Ruby on Rails. Any Elphas Can Code members have any good recommendations on what resources to use? Feel free to share anything you used to learn Ruby on Rails including any tips you might have.

katiecarrel·Jan 24, 2020

I relied heavily on the RoR guides when learning. I think that the documentation is very friendly! https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

jennychan·Feb 07, 2020

I love the RoR guides too! I go to it whenever I have to pick Rails back up or just to refer to in general.

cadran·Jan 24, 2020

I used the Hartl online book/tutorials to ramp up on Rails. I was just googling to get you the link and it seems like it's behind a paywall now though. I think this is the one: https://www.learnenough.com/ruby-on-rails-4th-edition-tutorial/beginning

DevChemi·Jan 25, 2020

Hi! I don’t have any favorite resources yet. I have used these frequently in the past. https://launchschool.com/bookshttps://rubymonk.com/https://rubystyle.guide/

DevChemi·Jan 25, 2020

Whoops I put Ruby instead of Rails.https://www.railstutorial.org/bookhttps://www.javatpoint.com/ruby-on-rails-tutorial

SueR·Jan 25, 2020

You can try the Odin Project. They have tons of resources that helped me along. https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks/1

janiceknsmith·Jan 25, 2020

@britishpandachick http://rubykoans.com/ is great for ruby itself, very nice and detailed, also if you are starting ruby on rails it can be nice to know what parts are ruby and what parts are rails.

RoseW·Jan 26, 2020

I really like "Agile Web Development with Rails". Here's a link to the Rails 6 versionhttps://pragprog.com/book/rails6/agile-web-development-with-rails-6I haven't read it yet but I want to branch into React and bought myself one on Rails and React:https://pragprog.com/book/nrclient/modern-front-end-development-for-rails

RoseW·Jan 26, 2020

Also, if you get stuck on any concepts feel free to ping me. I'm happy to give pointers!