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  • What did you do to get good at Rails?
  • I wouldn't consider myself that good at rails however TDD and BDD (writing tests) REALLY helped me improve a lot
  • Who taught you what you know?
  • Mostly self fiddling / I've learnt a lot from the Mocra team (mostly Radar)
  • Do you have any fond (or not so fond) memories of your learning experiences?
  • Too many to list, this is a full time job for me
  • What was your first production app and what did you learn from it?
  • An internal LAN system for a customer, I learnt that Rails is a lot easier than PHP
  • What tools do you use to make your life easier? Cucumber, Rspec, Textmate, Capistrano, the list goes on

  • What did you find particularly hard to grok when learning Rails? The idea of Linux / deployment / MCV killed me

  • When did you start on Rails? Almost three years ago

  • Did you learn Ruby first or try to jump straight into Rails? Jumped right into Rails (fuck yeah)

  • Did you read any books to get good at Rails? No way, I never read the manual (ever)

  • What system do you use? Snow Leopard

  • What editor do you prefer? Textmate

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