Don’t let people fool you into believing that Ruby on Rails is easy to learn. It is not! It’s probably the best and most effective framework to develop web applications but it is hard to understand in the beginning. The worst mistake of all is to not learn Ruby before diving into Ruby on Rails. To avoid it this book starts with the basics of Ruby. You will not become a Ruby guru after reading it but you’ll understand the basic ideas and that is important.
I wrote this book for developers who learn best by following clean examples. I don’t like the idea of coding one big single application throughout a book but prefer smaller stand-alone code examples. Therefore you can skip a couple of pages or even complete chapters without losing context.
Shameless plug: Please contact me by e-mail to stefan.wintermeyer@amooma.de if you need Ruby on Rails consulting or training.
Have fun with Ruby on Rails!
Stefan Wintermeyer
PS: I post updates about this book and Rails in general at https://twitter.com/wintermeyer