# Announcing "Ruby Newbie," a new Ruby on Rails blog aimed at **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 16, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-ruby-newbie-a-new-ruby-on-rails-blog-aimed-at/109504 "2007-07-16T02:09:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_Gagne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@Jim\_Gagne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jim_Gagne)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-ruby-newbie-a-new-ruby-on-rails-blog-aimed-at/109504/1 "2007-07-16T02:09:35Z")
Unlike most of those who blog so eloquently about Ruby and Rails, my day job is unrelated to computers. But let’s face it, I’m obsessed. What to do? Start a blog! I apologize in advance for the name “Ruby N.” (http:// [rubynewbie.jamesgagne.com/](http://rubynewbie.jamesgagne.com/)). It’s hardly original, but I love it. Here are the articles so far (7/15/07): - Despite reading a gaggle of Ruby and Rails books, I still wasn’t entirely certain how code in models, controllers, and views interacted with each other. What is their scope? Can a controller call a method in a model? If so, how? – you can’t just call the method. Exactly what goes in the model\_helper.rb files? Is there a place to put methods available anywhere in a Rails project? So I created a dummy project to play around with. Here’s the report and a copy of the project you can download. - Recommendations for books for the rank beginner to Ruby and Rails - Where to learn more about Rake - Generate local copies of RDoc documentation _you can find_ for Ruby, Rails, and gems. (To date, I haven’t found a way to access all the stuff installed with MacPorts.) - Further investigations into the mysteries of “self” and why it matters to beginners —Jim Gagne—