# Solid, serious tutorials?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solid-serious-tutorials/169343>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 2, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solid-serious-tutorials/169343 "2009-06-02T16:26:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agilehack)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solid-serious-tutorials/169343/1 "2009-06-02T16:26:31Z")

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Guys

I am looking for a solid Rails tutorial to sort of refresh and jump  
start me back into rails development. I was doing it for a while  
(small stuff) and then got away for a while. I would love a fairly  
comprehensive tutorial including doing things correctly (like  
migrations, using good gems). Can anyone point me to one? I have  
done most of the basic tutorials already and took a Rails intro  
course.

JR

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**Author:** ![agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agilehack)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solid-serious-tutorials/169343/2 "2009-06-02T17:10:04Z")

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agilehack wrote:

> Can anyone point me to one? I have  
> done most of the basic tutorials already and took a Rails intro  
> course.
> 
> JR

I’ve spent the last few weeks learning ruby & RonR and I don’t think  
there is anything beyond these basic tutorials.

I thought this was the most useful one:

> **[Ruby on Rails Tutorial](http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby-on-rails/)**
>
> Ruby on Rails Tutorial - Ruby on Rails is an extremely productive web application framework written in Ruby by David Heinemeier Hansson. This tutorial gives you a complete understanding on Ruby on Rails.

but it is as simple as you could get.

Good luck – maybe someone will fill us in better, vis. on-line  
resources.

I have a few books out from the library. If you are willing to go that  
route, I’d recomment “Advanced Rails Recipes” (Clark et. al.) which is a  
collection of small projects (74 of them, in catagories) by all kinds of  
different people demonstrating various tools and techniques. If you’ve  
already done the basic tutorials, etc, it shouldn’t be hard to read.

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**Author:** ![agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@agilehack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agilehack)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solid-serious-tutorials/169343/3 "2009-06-02T18:16:19Z")

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> I am looking for a solid Rails tutorial to sort of refresh and jump  
> start me back into rails development. I was doing it for a while  
> (small stuff) and then got away for a while. I would love a fairly  
> comprehensive tutorial including doing things correctly (like  
> migrations, using good gems). Can anyone point me to one? I have  
> done most of the basic tutorials already and took a Rails intro  
> course.

There’s [http://guides.rubyonrails.org/](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/) . Not sure how tutorial-like  
they are though.

[http://rubytrends.com/](http://rubytrends.com/) is starting to become a good place to see what  
people are using project/gem wise…

-philip