There was a digg last night on the top 12 Rails tutorials. All there in a nice neat overview. As I blogged before, according to me, these tutorials don’t work. You should buy the book instead.
I spent countless nights and airport trips reading ‘the book’. I made annotations all over the book. Read chapters over and over again. Even now, after some 12 months, I still refer to the book every few days or so. It is never more than 1 meter away from where I’m coding.
I was in some kind of distress when I learned that using physical books was so 1990′s and that annotations I scribbled all over are difficult to upgrade. So … I came to this conclusion: I am probably doing 60-70% of the things wrong or sub-optimal. By browsing the book, I often read paragraphs that I forgot about. So I will buy a new version of the same book, re-read it all over again so I am sure I will make less ‘mistakes’.
So, don’t do the tutorials, buy the book and consider buying the book again in 12 months or so to re-read it.
