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[Ask HN]: Best RoR references.

7 points by GrandMasterBirt ↗ HN
I am trying to pick up ruby on rails (2.3) as fast as possible to get my feet off the ground making some code work. Can you guys recommend any resources that provide docs or tutorials which can help me get a good understanding of how RoR works and how to decode the magic behaviors?

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empire29
When I started learning Rails i just read through and followed the steps in here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

I ended up buying a couple books, but while being ok, weren't as good at addressing the fundamentals as the guides.rubyonrails.org site.

tjogin
This is a great resource. A lot of the time, questions in #rubyonrails on Freenode are answered with a link to one of these guides.

I think it also helps to think of Rails' code as having conventions, rather than magic. The conventions are actually easy to learn and are quite consistent, stop telling yourself they're "magic".

cheald
I learned with the Agile Web Development book, but it wasn't comprehensive. The Rails Way is a good book, but it's more of a reference than a guide.

http://gotapi.com is my go-to reference, and I spend a lot of time reading code that I want to learn something from.