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The “Query memcached” link doesn’t work. I think you EnvyDotted their site.

Not sure if this is the place to ask questions, but as someone new to the RoR world from perl, I’m wanting to start and get in, but it seems the rails world moves very fast, at least based on the RE podcast :) Should I be going through my 1st edition RoR from pragmatic studios, or ignore that and go straight to a book that is focused on Ruby 1.8/1.9 and Rails 2.0/2.1/2.2? I’m sure starting with the 1.2 world would be fine, but I’m not sure if the changes and philosophies have changed enough that it’d make more sense to find something more “modern”. Any suggestions on the best way to start out? (other than “just write some code dummy!” :)

@Alan,

I started with 1.2, and while some important things did change (scaffolding for example) I’d say starting with 1.2 isn’t too bad. Just be aware that if something seems like it should be working but isn’t, you might need to see if 2.1 changed it. The basic design philosophy is the same, and in most cases there may just be a better way to do something. The things to watch out for (of the top of my head) are migrations, scaffolding, and pagination.

Awesome post! Nice to see searchgasm on here :)

Alan, I was in the same boat as you when I first started to learn rails. I felt like I was far behind. The reality is that the basics behind rails haven’t changed that much. So reading that book definitely wouldn’t hurt. Where it gets crazy is when you start trying to keep up with edge rails, all of the new plugins, etc. Which is what railsenvy is all about. They let you know what happens each week so you dont have to spend time every day reading websites.

Maybe this is just the type of learner that I am, but I felt like the “recipes” books were the most helpful. They discussed that unique problems you face in applications and provide some good examples on how to use rails in “advanced” ways.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the answers guys!

I forgot to post a stupid comment for this podcast.

Hey guys, thanks for fixing the https download thing. At least I’m assuming you fixed it because I got your podcast automagically this week. Keep up the good work!

Hey, thanks for a great episode. I was listen to some of your old podcasts, what happend to the less-everything guy? He got “famous” because you let him be a guest artist, and after that he made this really stupid interview with you on Rubyology. What happened? Not a word since then.

Jim: Yup, I fixed it, thanks for the heads up

jnstq: LOL, Steven is famous… he has a great blog and puts out all sorts of good applications over at LessEverything.com . Jason was down and out for a while, so it was great to have Steven come help out for a few weeks. Hopefully we’ll have him back so he can get famous again.