PHP developer learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails [closed]

Question

I have been interested in learning Rails for some time now and feel now is as good as time as ever to dip in and actually get my hands dirty. I've spent the past week reading every free ebook on Ruby and Ruby on Rails I can find. I just finished reading Ruby Essentials. I have also been playing with http://tryruby.hobix.com/

I have installed Ruby, Rails, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin on a Windows XP machine, I also have access to a Ubuntu machine.

I come from several years of PHP experience and around a year using CodeIgniter.

What I would really like now is a fairly basic Rails app that is a little more in depth than Hello World but not quite up to par with say a forum or blog.

I find its much easier to learn how something works when I can play with already made code and do some trial and error changes.

What I am really looking for is that 'Ohhh, I totally understand now!' moment I had when I first started learning PHP.

Does anyone have an app or know of one that could possibly provide that moment?

Answer 1

Check out the screen casts on Rails at BuildingWebApps . I've watched several and they have been exactly what I was looking for when learning rails. They start simple and keep adding more and more functionality. The commentators move at a good pace and subscribing to the lessons is free.