Ruby on Rails Screencast - Iteration 3 - Ryan Bates
There are some really helpful people in the Rails community, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who helps bunny and green coders more than Ryan Bates. Ryan's own site Railscasts.com is easily my favourite screencast - I like it better than my own!
I attended RailsConf 2007, where it was revealed that REST would become the preferred way of building Rails apps. REST is so much front and centre that in the upcoming Rails 2.0 the scaffold generator is going to be replaced by scaffold_resource. Ryan walks me through this code line by line, explaining what things are and how they work. Thanks Ryan for the guided tour into a working Rails app. It's really helping me learn how this stuff fits together.
Better make some popcorn to watch this one though. It's just shy of an hour and 40 minutes long! (sorry it's so long, but I just couldn't bear cutting stuff out).
Hi, I'm Miles K. Forrest. I'm a wannabe coder trying to forge my own path through the software design world jungle. Although I'm not a great programmer, I've met many folks who are. I hope these screencasts encourage you to keep hacking away at Ruby on Rails and to have fun.
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Sorry gang to those of you wanting an episode on deployment. I have something planned but I'm not ready yet.
If I could afford to work on these things full time like Geoffrey Grosenbach does for PeepCode, I would. Sadly, a donation button doesn't bring in enough to feed my wife and two children :)
I'll get more episodes out as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience.
tyvm for doing this! :) same goes to ryan. :D
Great job on these Ryan. This is perfect for someone first getting into Rails (or any web) development.
Keep it up!
It's about friggin' time. :-D
Just kidding dude. It's great to see another episode, but I don't mean to get on your case. Do these whenever you can, I understand about being busy with work, life, wife and kids.
But hurry! :-)
very good
i am waiting for new video.
Miles,
What version of VNC are you using to connect with your interviewees?
I'm using Vine Server on my end and whatever VNC client for the guests. Most have been using Chicken of VNC but any version will do.
this one was a bit too long. also not enough examples building on the DHH episode from number one. The DHH episode is the most helpful tutorial on Rails I've found. Thanks for doing these.
These are all fantastic Miles, as I'm kind of in the same boat as you as far as learning Rails. It seems like it would be a lot of fun to get involved with something like this, so if you ever need a guest to throw ideas and information around, or if you'd like a co-host in the future, contact me. I think we could learn a bit from each other.
Great stuff guys! Just found out about this from Ryan's Railscasts. Really enjoying these episodes Miles. Oh, Railscasts as well of course. LOL
Miles, what is that outtro music? Sounds really groovy. Nice!
Ben: Can you email me? (coderpath@gmail.com)
Nemanja: The outtro music was a song from the Soundtracker Mod scene. Not sure what the title is (http://www.scenemusic.net)
Hey Miles, whats the news? can we expect another cast soon?
Hey Miles
I finished watching all three podcasts. Here is the feedback:
1. I learnt so much more from Ryan's podcast than I learnt reading Agile book. The bigger picture is much more clear now. I am so excited I can't keep away from my laptop.
2. Amy's episode was fun to watch. It would help me streamlining the process I was following to make a project. I designed most of what I wanted to do, on a napkin with pencil and it seems much more reachable.
3. David Hansson's podcast was little confusing to me as I started with this one first. Make s more sense after Ryan's podcast.
4. You have a superb communication skills. I am thinking of joining toastmasters, after I finish climbing the initial rails curve.
Great podcasts in all. Thanks for sharing them with us. And thanks to Ryan, Amy and David too. People like them are changing the world, by lighting community's mind with knowledge.
Arvinder: Thanks for the kind words. If you feel inspired to keep pressing on with learning Rails then I've achieved the goal I set with these screencasts.
Pete: I'll be recording an episode with my next guest very soon. Should have the next episode out in September. It would have been out sooner but a recording glitch destroyed the session (sigh).
Hi there Miles.
These screencasts are really nice to see, and remind me of something I was going to try out a while back for coding in Cocoa.
I've been looking at RoR for a while now and only now getting to get the time to start coding and these are really helping alaong with the Railscast sessions.
You mention that you have achieved what you set out to to, was that your project completed and if so how was it achieved. Those little bunnies with Amy Hoy looked interesting and a neat idea.
Hope that more follows soon.
Thanks
Philip
A iPod version of the videos would be really nice.
I know you see it a lot better on the laptop but I have what to do when I'm not near my computer but have the iPod with me.
@Piku: Sounds like a good idea. I'll look into providing an iPod video version as well.