Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition

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by mhartl • 14 years ago

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kenny_r• 14 years ago

Thank you so much for your effort and patience Michael. These video tutorials and the accompanying ebook are amazing resources for beginners.

mhartl8• 14 years ago

Glad to hear it! I really appreciate the support.

douglasisshiny• 14 years ago

I appreciate the great guide!

ChemicalScum• 14 years ago

I'm going through your tutorial at the moment and I think it's excellent. Now I'm considering buying the updated screencast. One question though. Is there any possibility for kindle friendly e-book?

cocoflunchy• 14 years ago

I'm learning rails with your tutorial too and have to say it's awesome!

nmondollot• 14 years ago

I decided to switch from php to rails a month ago, and your tutorial was enlightening. You seem to have taken a great deal of time to make the walk-through crystal clear, and I really appreciated it. I felt like I understood every step of the way, with no questions left unanswered. Big thanks from France!

sunwooz• 14 years ago

I bought the Rails Tutorial book only to find out that there's a free online version and the 2nd edition well on its way. Totally my fault though, should've done more research :/. Otherwise, it's a great book and I'm sure the 2nd edition fixes the compatibility issues.

mchristoff• 14 years ago

This is great. Congrads Mike!

peterjancelis• 14 years ago

I bought the second edition last Friday and have watched videos 1 to 7 last weekend. Really well done, love how the new edition uses Bootstrap!

desigooner• 14 years ago

These are great. Does anyone have any similar recommendations for Python / Django? I tried the MIT OCW videos for Python and they're pretty dry.

fcoury• 14 years ago

And, not trying to steal the thread, but I'd love to get some recommendations for Erlang as well.

nilliams• 14 years ago

I found Kenneth Love's 'Getting Started With Django' series a pretty great start: http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/resources/gigantuan.html

eggbrain• 14 years ago

For those of us who have already gone through the first edition of his tutorials, would anyone have any books they would add that are essential for learning Rails in depth?

dutchrapley2• 14 years ago

The Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernandez

rjsamson• 14 years ago

I'll second that. One of the better Rails books I've read.

scalessec• 14 years ago

FWIW, I also went through the first edition, and now I'm working through the 2nd edition... I'm really impressed with how much stuff has been added and updated. Really good stuff here.

nateberkopec• 14 years ago

Rails Anti-Patterns

melvinram2• 14 years ago

Rails Recipes and Advanced Rails Recipes

http://pragprog.com/book/rr2/rails-recipes

http://pragprog.com/book/fr_arr/advanced-rails-recipes

The Advanced Rails Recipes is out of date but the concepts still apply.

melvinram2• 14 years ago

Also, I've heard good things about Crafting Rails Applications (http://pragprog.com/book/jvrails/crafting-rails-applications) though I haven't gone through it myself yet.

JonnieCache• 14 years ago

The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz)

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596516178.do

Know the fundamentals.

ashconnor• 14 years ago

Ryan Bates' "Railscasts" are a must.

dutchrapley2• 14 years ago

And if you really want to extend your knowledge of Ruby beyond just Rails, I highly recommend The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David Black

http://www.manning.com/black2/

btian• 14 years ago

Does anyone know when the version of screencast on Safari Books will be updated to 2nd edition?

UPDATE: sorry I just saw it. It's called "Ruby on Rails LiveLessons (Sneak Peek Video Training), Second Edition". Hopefully they'll update to the final version soon.

callmevlad2• 14 years ago

Anyone know if there is an "upgrade discount" for folks who purchased the 1st edition (physical book and screencasts) about a year ago?

mhartl8• 14 years ago

Yes, there is. Check your email for the discount code. If you can't find it, please email me directly (http://railstutorial.org/contact).

callmevlad2• 14 years ago

Ah, never mind, Michael just sent out an email to purchasers of the 1st edition. Thanks Michael!

rhizome• 14 years ago

FYI: there's an "edit" link for recently-posted comments.

briandear• 14 years ago

The smart discount was getting the 40% off coupon when Michael first announced the 2nd Ed. Great bargain!

seanoliver• 14 years ago

Thanks for keeping this incredible resource current, Michael. The first edition of your book was what first got me into web development. I'm definitely looking forward to the updated edition!

bomatson• 14 years ago

Just finished these screencasts last week and enjoyed every second of them! Thanks for helping me get started with Rails, Michael

muloka• 14 years ago

I've worked through most of the 2nd edition PDF when it first came out though received an email this afternoon stating "I'd also like to note that the latest PDF incorporates lots of improvements (including some big ones) discovered in the course of making the screencasts."

Out of curiosity do you have a list of big improvements between the initial 2nd edition PDF and the most up to date release?

mhartl8• 14 years ago

The biggest thing is a complete elimination of the need for a lambda in the status feed. You can compare

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users?versi...

and

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users#sec:s...

to see the difference.

jamiecarruthers• 14 years ago

The bundle was $95 yesterday. I still will be buying it at the weekend though.

mhartl8• 14 years ago

With the 20% discount it's only $5 more now that it was yesterday. (The coupon code is '2ndEd'.)

etherealHN2• 14 years ago

In the spirit of HN, where would you go if you wanted to pirate the screencasts (the most recent ones of course, the old ones are all over demonoid)

etherealHN2• 14 years ago

Funny how the attitude of HN users change their mind about content piracy when it's closer to something like what they work on.

mitsche• 14 years ago

I don’t think the majority of people here condone piracy. It’s the practice of criminalizing people who don’t acquire stuff legally because they either can’t (e.g. the content not being available in their country) or won’t (because the distribution model puts the consumer in a unfavorable position) that rubs people the wrong way.

keva161• 14 years ago

It might be in the spirit of HN but not in the spirit of being decent considering the hardwork that must of gone into this great resource.

mhartl8• 14 years ago

To understand how hackers see piracy, I suggest reading Eric Raymond's open letter to Chris Dodd:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4155

Money quote:

    We engineers do have an actual problem with Hollywood and the music industry,
    but it’s not the one you probably assume. To be blunt (because there isn’t any
    nice way to put this) we think Big Entertainment is largely run by liars and
    thieves who systematically rip off the artists they claim to be protecting
    with their DRM, then sue their own customers because they’re too stupid to
    devise an honest way to make money.

    I’m sure you don’t agree with this judgment, but you need to understand how
    widespread it is among technologists in order to get why all those claims
    about “piracy” and lost revenues find us so unsympathetic. It’s bad enough
    that we feel like our Internet and our computers are under attack, but having
    laws like SOPA/PIPA/ACTA pushed at us on behalf of a special-interest group we
    consider no better than gangsters and dimwits makes it much worse.

    Some of us think the gangsters’ behavior actually justifies piracy. Most of us
    don’t agree that those two wrongs add up to a right, but I can tell you this:
    if you make the technologists choose between the big-media gangsters and the
    content pirates, effectively all of us will side with the content pirates as
    the lesser of the two evils. Because maybe both sides are stealing on a vast
    scale, but only one of them doesn’t want to screw with our Internet or cripple
    our computers.

    We’d really prefer to oppose both groups, though. Our sympathies in this mess
    are with the artists being ripped off by both sides.

Note that the Rails Tutorial is neither part of Hollywood nor part of the music industry. It is distributed as DRM-free files that don't restrict your freedom in any way. When you make a purchase at railstutorial.org, the proceeds go directly to the "artist" (which in this case happens to be me).

As the author of the tutorial, I would of course rather you obtain the files legally. But if you do find an illegal copy, end up learning Rails, and get a high-paying job as a Rails developer, please tell your employer how you learned it. :-)

russtrpkovski• 14 years ago

Congrats Mike on finishing the 2nd edition!

jongold• 14 years ago

Really enjoyed the first edition (it was the first thing that got Rails to 'stick' after years of not-really-getting-it and it's my go-to resource for friends who ask about learning Rails); how different is the second edition? Will probably end up buying it anyway but is it a complete rewrite or just some updates?

mhartl8• 14 years ago

There are lots of updates. I think it's definitely worth getting if you liked the 1st edition. (Full disclosure: I am the author.)

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