# Updated Tutorials?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updated-tutorials/169283>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 1, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updated-tutorials/169283 "2009-06-01T21:30:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elricstorm)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updated-tutorials/169283/1 "2009-06-01T21:30:32Z")

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Summary:

Every book I’ve purchased has either been a) outdated using rails 1.x or  
b) outdated using rails 2.x where there are issues working through some  
of the books.

A good example is a book that others said was wonderful. It’s called  
Foundation Rails 2.

I started going through the book and everything is being taught the  
exact way I like to learn. So, I’m thinking “alright this is great!”.  
Then, I get to the first partial tutorial involving “clients”. I’m  
supposed to add the unfinished clients (that I downloaded) and work from  
that.

I download it, place it in my projects directory, fire up netbeans 6.5  
and add it and encounter a rake error. I try to get more information so  
I drop down into a command prompt and run rake -D on the directory  
called Clients and receive the following error:

rake aborted!  
undefined method ‘new!’ for Rational:Class  
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2383:in  
‘raw\_load\_rakefile’

I spent hours finally getting both mysql and sqlite3 up and running on  
1.9.1 on a windows environment and I’m able to create new projects in  
either DB platform on rails using netbeans 6.5.

However, it seems that every tutorial I find (other than the 10-minute  
weblog tutorial for netbeans) has failed or is outdated and contains  
errors. I wouldn’t be bothered by this so much if it wasn’t for the  
fact that I’ve paid money for these books and many of them have some  
nice concepts but nothing to work with or through.

So, my frustration is not with rails and it’s ever changing environment.  
It’s that people are selling books that are stating they work fine with  
rails 2.x and they aren’t.

Are there any tutorials out there that work for rails 2.3.2 that I can  
follow along with and where? I’d love to learn more about the model  
transitioning with databases… I’ve learned a great deal already but  
I’m missing tutorials that interact with databases.

Many thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elricstorm)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updated-tutorials/169283/2 "2009-06-01T22:30:51Z")

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> Are there any tutorials out there that work for rails 2.3.2 that I can  
> follow along with and where? I’d love to learn more about the model  
> transitioning with databases… I’ve learned a great deal already but  
> I’m missing tutorials that interact with databases.

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

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**Author:** ![elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elricstorm)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updated-tutorials/169283/3 "2009-06-01T22:51:47Z")

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Philip H. wrote:

> > Are there any tutorials out there that work for rails 2.3.2 that I can  
> > follow along with and where? I’d love to learn more about the model  
> > transitioning with databases… I’ve learned a great deal already but  
> > I’m missing tutorials that interact with databases.
> 
> [http://guides.rubyonrails.org/](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/)

Thanks Philip