mang’s ignorant Ruby notes

Cygwin stylee

• get ruby with cygwin
• learn about the shell
• install rubygems
• install wirble to get syntax highlighting

Ruby on Rails

A lot of the online tutorials seems to be slightly out of date. Learning Rails without say RadRails seems wise, but then RadRails looks… well… rad.

• cheatsheet for [InstantRails](InstantRails.html) and [RadRails](http://ruby.meetup.com/73/boards/view/viewthread?thread=2203432)
• Deploying Rails on Dreamhost

Rails books:

• http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/title/rails/ (is good! only consider the most recent version)
• http://www.manning.com/black/