I'm the author of the article, so thanks a bunch for the praise! I have switched to being a professional Rails programmer four months ago and left the last 2.5 years of daily Python programming behind me. This post is more a by-product of a mail that I answered.
Maybe I'll sometimes get around and write a pendant for Ruby. To get you started - for my new job I had to read these seven books:
Nice, I've got all of those except for the CSS, Head First, and Rspec book... so I'm glad I've been headed in the right direction. Will look into those other books, I hear the RSpec book is real handy.
Thanks you so much for the tips and the list. This is why I love Hacker News.
I'm the author of the article, so thanks a bunch for the praise! I have switched to being a professional Rails programmer four months ago and left the last 2.5 years of daily Python programming behind me. This post is more a by-product of a mail that I answered.
Maybe I'll sometimes get around and write a pendant for Ruby. To get you started - for my new job I had to read these seven books:
* Agile Web development by Sam Ruby
* CSS, the definitve guide
* Head first software development
* jQuery in Action
* pragmatic git
* The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez
* The Rspec Book
Granted, this is less Ruby then Rails specific.
Best to you on your path,
Alain