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The Road to Rails - Part 2

So now I’ve got hold of a copy of Agile Web Development With Rails. It basically comes in the form of one giant tutorial that splits up into many small and easily digestible chunks. Those chunks also happen to be the sort of steps you’d make in the development of an application. It’s amazing how fast your application develops.

I did find that after about an hour I had messed something up early on, so I started using a Subversion repository for the application. This’ll hopefully allow me to go back when I do make a mistake. Because of the large number of small changes, it makes sense to make a commit to the repository often, and with a good description of what’s changed that includes a page number.

Version 2 of the book is out soon, and will hopefully cover all the latest updates in Rails.