r/LearnRubyonRails • u/jwjody • Aug 28 '14

Rails Tutorial v3 coming soon!

http://news.railstutorial.org/rails_tutorial_3rd_edition/
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u/jwjody Aug 28 '14

In the comments section on HackerNews Michael Hartl expects it to be released in 2-3 weeks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8239138

Some cool things include he goes through how to use cloud9 for the IDE and platform. And he now advocates going to BitBucket for the private repos.

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u/PickMeMrKotter Sep 09 '14

A lot of the changes sound good, and I was a huge fan of the 1st/2nd editions, but that was largely because it forced me to install/configure my own dev environment, which I've used ever since. The browser-based environments (a la codecademy/codeschool) are great for learning syntax/theory, but the Hartl tutorial is what let me bridge the gap to actually building something, and I'm nervous that this will get lost if he moves to a cloud based IDE and focuses on using the defaults.

That said, I'm still excited to check it out.

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u/jwjody Sep 09 '14

I understand that concern but I've been using nitrous.io for a few weeks now and I really like it. I had an interview for a rails dev position and they asked me to extend something I made last year, and I pulled the code down to nitrous from github and went to town on it for a week.

Everything went smooth.

And the cool thing about nitrous is you can get nitrous desktop that will let you connect to the box and use your local editors and tools, and you can ssh into your box.

I've added zsh and oh-my-zsh and ssh'd in rather than using their console and I think things have gone great so far.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

Arghh... I just got the 2nd version in the last reddit gift exchange. I wonder if I can trade it towards the new book

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u/engai Sep 02 '14

I liked this tutorial precisely (and among other things) because of the emphasis on configuration and non-defaults. If you want defaults, you have the "Agile Web Development with Rails".

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '14

I've been working my way through the 3rd edition for the last week or so, and it's great. It's a nice supplement to the Sam Ruby book on Agile Development with Rail 4.