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Ask HN: What's the best way to start with Ruby on rails?

3 points by arresin ↗ HN
I'm new to ruby and ruby on rails. Are there any devs here experience with both that could recommend a resource? A book, youtube series etc?

It would be really great if someone could recommend an overview of the language so I can get an idea of the syntax, and the syntax of your average rails app.

Finally I want to pair this with inertia.js. Has anyone done this in production? Does the combo work well?

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TheAceOfHearts
The official RoR docs are really good. And the Ruby docs also have a Getting Started guide which seems fine.
braum
I've been trying Rails again thanks to Lex and DHH podcast. The official docs are good but have some obvious errors in the code snippets, that were not obvious to me until I asked AI to explain.

Also I was reading the free chapters of the "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" but it still refers and suggests using AWS Cloud 9 which no longer allows new users, since 2024... I emailed the author but they have not replied. At $39 per MONTH it seems a bit much for such an obvious oversight. Seems borderline gauging to me to pay $39 just for the eBook, it is not for sale otherwise AFAIK. And to have the first chapter about getting set up to reference something that has been outdated since July 25th of 2024 does not leave a good impression for me.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/how-to-migrate-from-aws-...

I'm not a cheap sob, I will pay for content and books. But when the free content is already out of date... I don't hold much hope for the premium content and chapters at $39mo.

arresin
Exactly that podcast episode got me interested also!
aregsar
Agile web development with rails by Sam Ruby is a great intro to Ruby and rails.

The Ruby on rails channel on YouTube has a playlist explaining all the new components of rails 8 called rails 8 unpacked. Things like solid queue/cache and propshaft.