# Intermediate level tutorials

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermediate-level-tutorials/186098>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 31, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermediate-level-tutorials/186098 "2010-03-31T15:53:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![IanJ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IanJ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IanJ)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermediate-level-tutorials/186098/1 "2010-03-31T15:53:24Z")

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Hi  
I’m hoping somebody can suggest an intermediate level tutorial or  
point me in the right direction.  
I’m a moderately experienced programmer (20 + years off and on) but  
I’m really struggling to get to grips with Web/RoR development. I’m  
reasonably familiar with Python and am getting familiar with Ruby.  
Having just spent a whole day trying to get a button to call a method  
in a controller I’m clearly missing some fundamental knowledge.

I’ve worked through a few of the many tutorials with few problems  
(wrong Rails version mostly) but they all seem pretty basic.  
On the otherhand discussions on here mostly seem to assume more than I  
know!

So - any conversion tutorials out there for procedural, non-web  
developers?

Thanks in advance  
Ian

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**Author:** ![IanJ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IanJ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IanJ)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermediate-level-tutorials/186098/2 "2010-03-31T23:34:10Z")

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On Mar 31, 1:08 pm, IanJ [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi  
> I’m hoping somebody can suggest an intermediate level tutorial or  
> point me in the right direction.

Well, have a try at [http://paperc.de](http://paperc.de) where you can read whole books  
online for free. It’s a German site, but has a lot of english titles.  
Just search for ruby on rails. ‘Suchen’ means search in German 🙂

I don’t know their business model but it’s really great.

Rajiv

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**Author:** ![IanJ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IanJ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IanJ)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermediate-level-tutorials/186098/3 "2010-04-01T16:46:39Z")

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This book is quite useful, you can just get the PDF version if you  
wish:

> **[Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers](https://pragprog.com)**
>
> We improve the lives of professional developers. We create timely, practical books on classic and cutting-edge topics to help you learn and practice your craft, and accelerate your career. Come learn with us.

This is a useful place to get info:

> **[Ruby on Rails Guides](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/)**
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> Ruby on Rails Guides

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**Author:** ![IanJ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IanJ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IanJ)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermediate-level-tutorials/186098/4 "2010-04-01T16:56:36Z")

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I agree with Victor, it’s a very good book.

But perhaps you can start with a very good starting book that I bought  
before the mentioned book.  
It’s Head First Rails.  
It has a very interesting learning concept which cleared a lot of web  
concept to me

Good luck

Le 1 avr. 2010 à 16:44, Victor S a écrit :

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**Author:** ![IanJ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IanJ](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IanJ)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermediate-level-tutorials/186098/5 "2010-04-02T17:13:58Z")

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Thanks for the replies.  
I’ll give both the books a read. My gaps do seem to be as much Web  
related as Rails.

Ian