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Ruby

Posted by Gregory Sheppard
Gregory Sheppard
4,312 Points

When will content be updated?

The new versions for Ruby and Rails have been out for a few months now. I don't want to be that person, but since we are paying for the content when will it actually be updated? As it stands, people attempting to follow the Ruby on Rails material are probably using the latest version of everything which breaks the majority of the Treebook tutorial. Devise specifically has been a royal pain with Rails 4.

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

I'm not sure I see your point. The goal is to learn Rails not to learn the shiny new features in Rails 4. If you want to learn Rails from Treehouse use the supported version of Rails.

Gregory Sheppard
Gregory Sheppard
4,312 Points
Gregory Sheppard
Gregory Sheppard
4,312 Points

It's not realistic to assume people will be using an older version of the software, especially considering most of your users are new to programming and might not understand the point of learning deprecated syntax or software versioning.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Most books handle this by mentioning what version of the software it was written for. I'd suggest Treehouse do that same (as I don't work for Treehouse). That's my advice for Treehouse.