rlogwood/rails-discuss

rails project examples for discussion in forums

This is a repository to share and discuss rails examples

Getting Started With Rails

• If you alreay have your Rails environment setup, you may enjoy the clear error reporting from the BetterErrors gem: https://github.com/BetterErrors/better_errors. 😎

Getting your environment setup

• Getting your environment setup can be painful IMO. I finally settled on Linux primarily and use brew to install chruby and ruby-install for managing my ruby versions.

• I'm currently using Linux, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

• If you're starting out can avoid a lot of headaches by following the exact instructions in a tutorial for their environment (exact version of rails, ruby, node).

• For javascript modules (for example webpacker) you'll need to have node setup also and I use yarn for javascript package installs (there may other setup issues for python and gcc):

Development tools you'll need

• NOTE: For mac's use the macOS brew, for window use WSL2 and find a tutorial that is specific to that environment.
• https://github.com/postmodern/chruby
• https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install
• https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux
• nvm to manage node versions - https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/nvm (pyenv for python versions)
• yarn to manage javascript packages - https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/yarn
• nvm --help use it to install node
• some tutorials let you avoid setup by using a pre-configured online environment until you get your own setup 🐕‍🦺 🙂

Reading the Rails docs, invaluable IMO: 🧐

• https://guides.rubyonrails.org/
• https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/ (these are often more up to date)
• https://apidock.com/
• Rails source code https://github.com/rails

Some resources I've found valuable are:

• https://gorails.com/series/rails-for-beginners
• gorails videos, check out the series and watch the one that fits
• https://www.theodinproject.com/paths/full-stack-ruby-on-rails/courses/ruby-on-rails
• https://www.learnenough.com/ruby-on-rails-6th-edition
• https://rebuilding-rails.com/
• https://store.afomera.dev/learn-rails-by-building-instagram
• Udemy Rails Classes (https://www.udemy.com/)
• Lynda Rails Classes (now https://www.linkedin.com/learning)
• YouTube Rails demos and tutorials
• Getting sleep and starting over the next day 😴 🖖