survey

What did you do to get good at Rails?

  Read source code, wrote plugins

Who taught you what you know?

  Josh Susser! (about ActiveRecord)

Do you have any fond (or not so fond) memories of your learning experiences?

  It was hard, framework was broken, documentation sucks.
  But if everything was perfect and stable like now, I wouldn't have learned.

What was your first production app and what did you learn from it?

  Admin interface (CMS) for a PHP site. I learned that PHP sucks

What tools do you use to make your life easier?

  My own :P

What did you find particularly hard to grok when learning Rails?

  Proper authentication, all the controller edge cases with
  rendering/layouts/mime-types

When did you start on Rails?
  
  WWR says 3 years 3 months ago

Did you learn Ruby first or try to jump straight into Rails?

  I wanted to learn Rails, but refrained from using it and concentrated
  on Ruby for first 4 months, then read Rails source code when I finally could.

Did you read any books to get good at Rails?

  I did, but they didn't make me good.

What system do you use?

  Used Ubuntu back then, OS X now \m/ \m/

What editor do you prefer?

  vim / TextMate