# A quick ground up kit for Ruby on Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-quick-ground-up-kit-for-ruby-on-rails/142496>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 8, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-quick-ground-up-kit-for-ruby-on-rails/142496 "2008-07-08T15:43:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![abhinavvaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@abhinavvaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/abhinavvaid)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-quick-ground-up-kit-for-ruby-on-rails/142496/1 "2008-07-08T15:43:09Z")

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Guys, I am relatively very new to Ruby almost a veteran as an  
automation engineer. Lately we have been using some open source tools  
which my current employer mandated to use and we started.

Now in the middle of the project, we have hit various technical issues  
which no one is aware of. Going deep into the tool revealed that it  
was a subset of Ruby on Rails. Is there any short/crisp to the point  
dummies series etc which I could go through for a quicker turn around  
time.

I’ve burnt my hands in almost all the scripting languages except Ruby,  
and any help on this will be highly highly appreciated.

Abhinav Vaid

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**Author:** ![abhinavvaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@abhinavvaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/abhinavvaid)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-quick-ground-up-kit-for-ruby-on-rails/142496/2 "2008-07-08T16:23:31Z")

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Well, the ‘standard’ rails book is “Agile Web D. With Ruby on  
Rails” by David Thomas et al, which i believe has the third edition out  
recently/soon.

If you’ve never used Ruby then a good book is “Ruby For Rails” by David  
A Black, a frequent contributor to this forum site. Some ruby knowledge  
is invaluable as Rails has a lot of ‘magic’ (which as we all know has  
its upsides and downsides) even if you DO know ruby well.

I wouldn’t bother with any ‘Dummies’ or similar books.

When you learn Rails, i’d STRONGLY recommend reading through sections of  
the API rather than (or rather, as well as) just following tutorials.  
Reading the docs for, say, ActiveRecord::Base after you’ve done a little  
bit of rails stuff will make everything a lot clearer, especially if  
you’re trying to understand someone else’s code. I usually use  
[www.railsbrain.com](http://www.railsbrain.com) to answer my API questions.

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**Author:** ![abhinavvaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@abhinavvaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/abhinavvaid)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-quick-ground-up-kit-for-ruby-on-rails/142496/3 "2008-12-06T17:32:25Z")

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Dear Williams,

its been close to 5 months since the day I received your  
recommendations. Needless to say that the kind of impact a couple of  
thoughtful crafted lines of inputs have made. As I write to you, the  
project for which I had saught help stands completed. Never touched  
Dummies and would never do so.

Another input by you on ActiveRecord::Base has entirely changed my  
perspective in the manner in which I have been implementing projects.  
One thoughtful reply can bring a lifetime change in which the projects  
are implelemted eventually impacting millions of customers.

I owe you/as well as others who are taking initiatives to make the  
difference of contibuting towards the community. My sincere thanks to  
everyone.

On Jul 8, 7:23 pm, Max W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)