Update and Plan of Action

Update:
1. Watched the videos for Owning Rails Masterclass. Got a good basic understanding of the background to Rails. Got massive help by understanding Ruby Design Patterns.


2. Signed up for New Relic and deployed a rails app. So I should get a free 3 months membership to Code School. Should come in very handy.

More information is available here:
http://bit.ly/CSfNewRelic

3. This ebook is perfect for Rails beginners. It certainly helped me learn the basics of Rails and understand the foundations. Learn Rails

Action Plan

1. Finish Reading the Learn Rails ebook.
2. Read Jump Start Rails
3. Finish Ruby On Rails Tutorial
4. Go through Testing And Starter Apps on Rails Apps
5. Learn TDD And BDD
6. Write Sample Apps
7. Do skills assessment on freelance sites
8. Bid for jobs

Stay Calm and Hurry Back

Sorry for the brief hiatus from blogging.

Life got in the way.

I didn't stop learning rails just didn't get here to tell you what's happening.

So here is what I have been up to.

I went to the end of chapter 3 of the Rails tutorial.

I realized that I was just going through the exercises but I wasn't exactly learning or understanding what I was doing. I realized that I needed to understand rails so that I can develop on it. I need more information on the background to rails.

I did some research on the design patterns behind rails and I'm now going through agile web development with Ruby on rails. After this I will be going through the Rails Way.

On Saturday I will be going through a marathon tutorial session with my learning partner Dru.
We will be going through the videos to the owning Rails Class.

Hopefully by then I would have completed the Agile Web Development book and going through more of the rails tutorial.