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Four Days on Rails
28 Feb 2005 by Matthew Linderman
Four Days on Rails is a 40 page introduction to useful Rails techniques and where to go on the web for more information.
Rails is well documented on-line; in fact, possibly too well documented for beginners, with over 30,000 words of on-line documentation in the format of a reference manual. What’s missing is a roadmap (railmap?) pointing to the key pages that you need to know to get up and running in Rails development…Four Days on Rails is designed to fill that gap.
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28 Feb 2005 | bill said...
Is this working for anyone? I want to download it but I can't. If it needs a mirror I'll volunteer. Lemme know.
28 Feb 2005 | Chris Johanesen said...
Yes! This is exactly what I needed. In just the last week or so I've been starting to read about Rails, and the intro tutorials are great, but there was no next stepfrom tech demonstration to building a real web app. I'm still on Chapter 3, but it's already answered a dozen or so questions that I've been asking myself. Anyone learning Rails needs to read this.
28 Feb 2005 | DHH said...
There's a mirror of the book on the Rails server.
28 Feb 2005 | JamesZ said...
This is perfect timing! I have just got rails running on my OS-x laptop and have been messign around with it a lot. This stuff is sooooo slick!
01 Mar 2005 | seth said...
I haven't seen it mentioned, but nice redesign of the Rails site guys. A lot better than before. Love the new icon as well. The rails forming an R is subtle but very cool.
07 Mar 2005 | Dan said...
http://rails.homelinux.org/ is "blocked".
"The site you are trying to access has been blocked.
If you are trying to reach a dynamic DNS hosted site, this block is intentional and for security reasons."
Bleh.
