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Ruby

Joe Dayvie
Joe Dayvie
11,956 Points
Posted by Joe Dayvie
Joe Dayvie
11,956 Points

Opinions for Ruby Lectures?

Hello,

I am currently on the "Build a Todo List App" in the Rails Development track and while everything has made sense thus far (with some exceptions), I feel extremely overwhelmed with starting off in this lecture.

I don't know if this is normal for this video (since its my first time using Ruby on Rails) or does anyone recommend other videos/lessons prior to this? I feel as if the video is going too fast for me without explaining what is being typed (since I have no understanding of it as I copy it).

Any thoughts & opinions are greatly appreciated, thank you!

Joe

Andrew Gay
Andrew Gay
20,893 Points

I recommend completely as many/all ruby stand alone courses before diving into rails

1 Answer

Charles Smith
Charles Smith
7,575 Points
Charles Smith
Charles Smith
7,575 Points

YES.

When I started this course, I was a little lost. Part of that is that rails hides a lot of the magic away, and part is that basically no tutorial I'd come across (treehouse included) explains very well what is happening behind the scenes, which made it tough for me to grok it.

... and I just deleted a comment that was turning into a book. Without more specificity in what you're having trouble with explaining rails turns into quite a topic.

Charles Smith
Charles Smith
7,575 Points
Charles Smith
Charles Smith
7,575 Points

Some things that helped me:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ http://railsforzombies.org/ https://www.railstutorial.org/

By no means complete. A prereq, in my opinion, is having a basic understanding of Ruby. Any number of Ruby tutorials exist and are very good at explaining Ruby (treehouse, of course, has one.)