Teach Yourself Ruby on Rails

This post is about the path I am taking to teach myself Ruby on Rails. I will be reviewing the resources I am using along the way and updating this post and track when necessary.

I really do like the idea of Rails bootcamps. If I was in a different place in my life I probably would take the opportunity to shut out everything else and deep dive into Rails 16 hours a day for 4 months.

But I have a job I want to keep, a wife I want to stay married to and a child I want to be here for. All of this means that I need to find a different way.

I am working through these resources from 4am to 6am on weekdays and 4am to 7am on the weekend. I have skipped a couple of days here and there. I even skipped a week once when I was sick and extremely fatigued. But mornings are the only way I can make this happen and I am going to make this happen.

While working through this list I will also be applying what I am learning to a project at work rebuilding a B2B ordering portal. I will also be periodically doing Ruby coding exercises to improve my programming skills overall. If you have any suggestions or questions please feel free to contact me.

1. Intro to Ruby on Rails Workshop by Thoughtbot
2. Rails for Zombies by Code School
3. Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl
4. Intermediate Ruby on Rails by Thoughtbot
5. Humans Present Refactoring by Thoughtbot
6. Code School Rails Track
7. Agile Web Development with Rails by Sam Ruby
8. RailsApps Tutorials
9. Rails Casts
10. Rails Tutorial Screencasts by Micahel Hartl
11. The Rails 4 Way by Obie Fernandez
12. Rails 4 in Action by Ryan Bigg
13. Test-Driven Rails Workshop by Thoughtbot
14. Improving Rails Performance by Thoughtbot

Some Ruby books I will also complete

1. Beginning Ruby by Peter Cooper
2. The Well-Grounded Rubyist by Black
3. Eloquent Ruby by Olsen
4. The Ruby Way by Fernandez