So, I’ve decided that I should look into the Ruby on Rails framework (at last) for my 3rd year Uni project to try and streamline some of the work that needs done for it.
Obviously, my first thought is to turn to the trusty ‘For Dummies’ books, so I pick myself up a copy of Ruby on Rails for Dummies and start working through it. All I’ve read so far seems to indicate that it’s exactly what I need and looks to be right up my alley. So far, so good.
Until I get to actually -installing- Ruby on Rails, that is. That’s when I find out that the book is written for Ruby on Rails 1.x – while Rails 3.x has just managed to come out…
So, yeah, looks like I’m going to have to work in the older version for now while I use the book to find my feet with the language. Shouldn’t be too much of a problem as my reading up on the newer versions indicate that they’re mostly about adding and not so much with the removing – but there are a few examples in the book that the author points out are a bit broken in Rails 2.x, never-mind this year’s version… Hopefully it won’t be a big issue, though.
This would be a lot easier if RadRails wasn’t being so useless and throwing up meaningless errors. Looks like I’m going to have to do it all the hard way…