Learn Ruby on Rails on Windows!
July 24th, 2006If you are interested in learning Ruby on a Windows machine I recommend spending a weekend to read the free online book Programming Ruby and downloading InstantRails and RadRails to begin testing the Ruby code snippets it will show you.
After that, I recommend Agile Web Developent with Rails by the-one-and-only David Heinemeier Hansson.
For support while learning hop on freenode.net and join #ruby-lang and #rubyonrails. The crowd is very enthusiastic and willing to answer your questions.
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July 24th, 2006 at 03:28 AM
Ohh, nice!
July 24th, 2006 at 03:31 AM
Ruby is very cool stuff! Rails is what is making it popular though, thanks to David; he made it while he was a contractor freelancing for 37Signals. He was later hired (for obvious reasons) and became a partner in the company. Brilliant guy. I really recommend his book! :)
July 24th, 2006 at 16:33 PM
Minor correction... your first link is actually "Programming Ruby"... aside from that, here's a shameless plug for our site on Rails development for Windows developers - Softies on Rails!
July 24th, 2006 at 23:42 PM
Thanks for the correction, Brian! :) Nice site you have there.
April 9th, 2007 at 13:48 PM
hmm, Cool!
April 17th, 2007 at 15:34 PM
Any thoughts on Django, or haven't you tried it? I personally prefer Django over Rails, but that might be because I allready knew a bit of python beforehand.
October 1st, 2008 at 20:42 PM
Ruby on Rails is great. I am actually in the process of learning Ruby on Rails now. I am learning on a Mac though.
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