Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I would like to start making code patches to Rails. Are there any good books on ‘advanced’ Ruby that I should read to understand the rails source code? Are there any other tips on getting started? Rails seems like a large beast and I don’t know where to start!
Thanks,
Jason.
UPDATE: I’m also looking for something that explains more the ‘networking’ side of it — i.e. HTTP, web servers, Rack, etc.
My advice would be to read this one:
http://pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with-rails-third-edition to get a pretty much complete understanding of how rails works on the outside, if you haven’t already.
And then checkout the latest trunk and start reading a component you like, messing with files as you please and trying out the changes on a live project.
Metaprogramming is a concept used a lot in Rails, so this book would definitely be good too: http://pragprog.com/titles/ppmetr/metaprogramming-ruby.
Hope that’ll put you on your way