My quest to learn Ruby on Rails is still at full steam, when I am not swamped with work.  Along with the numerous books, I have been going through an online Ruby on Rails training course at buildingwebapps.com.

My first attempt at learning Ruby on Rails has been thwarted by the latest release of Ruby on  Rails v2.1.  The book I was reading “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications” published by Sitepoint was written very well but outdated.  The version in the book is 1.2.3.   I was excited about learning to create my own Digg site.  I guess that is why Sitepoint was giving away free copies.  I looked into purchasing the updated version called Simply Rails 2, but after looking through the forums, this edition had some problems too.

I found a much better book called “Agile Web Development with Rails” third edition.  The first edition is among the best selling programming books in the world and won a Jolt award for best technical book.  The print version doesn’t some out until October 2008, but you can download a .pdf version now.  You will recieve updated .pdf versions as the book is revised.    I hope this book turns out to be as good as the reviews.

I am testing out how posts look on my new WordPress Theme I designed. So, I adding another post about random things.

Starting to learn Ruby on Rails tonight, until ADD got the better of me and I created this blog, I was surfing some competitors web sites and saw their blog.

Ruby on Rails seems like it will be somewhat easy to figure out. I just need to find the time to learn new things, keep up with my website design work, spend time with the family and ride my bike. The book I am reading Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications seems to be very good. We’ll see how it goes.