When I first sat down to learn Rails, I thought, "A week, maybe two... ." 

Yeah, right!

I've now learned that watching a 1hr 20min tutorial video from Michael Hartl will take me about a day.  That's including:
  • pausing and rewinding to catch up (typing) and to be sure I understand.
  • verifying locally and on Heroku that everything is working right
    (I'm still leary of Heroku, see my previous posts.)
  • flipping back-and-forth between the video and the PDF versions (especially where there might be large CSS to copy-and-paste.
  • taking regular breaks to shake my head (and make sure that I can remember what I just read/did).
So, I'm learning that patience (with persistence) is my best combination.
... that and keeping a window to StackOverflow.com open for any weirdness that creeps up!
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(Looking for errors and hiccups in learning Rails?  Try here.)

Often, the tips that are said to be important are hidden deep within a tutorial.  So, to act as an external data bank, I'm going to comment on some of these here. 

  1. Security Hole Warning - Make sure that you use "attr_accessible" to keep hackers out of your database.
    ...warning...
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