train-ed

I’ve been fighting the Ruby on Rails movement, I’m a perl programmer and proud of it damnit! I broke down last night and started to plow through some docs and I’m trying to work on a basic project to get my feet wet.  From the sysadmin side I’ve got installing the components on the server down pat, so that was the easy part for me. Now I’m into setting up all the actual RoR pieces and that’s taking a little longer to take in. One of the big issues I seem to be running into is the books or documentation that I pull up often is Rails 1.x and since I just installed everything I’ve got the latest and greatest Rails 2.x. It seems that there are a few key things that have changed in the new version that make the older documentation (1+ years) out of date. Picking through the RoR wiki can be just as painful as I’ve read through most of a page when I come across a note that everything I just spent trying to hammer into my brain doesn’t work in 2.x. In addition to that there seems to be people that are very model centric and do that first while others are very application centric and want to do a load of application creation up front of any backend. In the end I’m thinking I should have done this a few months ago before 2.0 rolled out.