Learning RoR is an interesting thing to do in my opinion. Everyone seems to write about it for one reason or another. There are lots of tutorials, articles, blog posts, conferences, etc… The one thing I keep running into is this. Almost everything I read says, “Do this, then this, then bingo you have a blog!”. That’s all fine and dandy, but I want to know why I did these things, what these things are doing, and what it will do for me. I would rather someone tell me what the relationships are, and what the syntax is. I can fit the rest of the pieces together myself usually. If anyone knows of a site or book that explains what does what in the framework, without the extra 1000+ pages of junk, please let me know.

My major hurdle with RoR is that I find 3 different sites with different guides or posts about what to do to accomplish something. All 3 will do it with a different feature in the framework, and none explain why, or what the difference is. If using scaffold, resource, and model all accomplish the same end result generally, why have 3? There must be a difference, otherwise they wouldn’t exist. API documentation is boring of course, and following in true programmer fashion I read the parts I need. If what I want isn’t readily available, I look for another source.

I am still working on styling, my mind cannot seem to do it’s job and pick something already. Even the colors I am thinking of are in a constant maelstrom of ideas. Maybe I should do them all, and have a lovely pallette switch at the top, but I hate those.

Thats all for now, if anyone actually reads this blog, please feel free to leave a comment, even just a hi to let me know I am not blogging into the abyss.