Learning Rails (and Ruby too!)

Over the past couple days I’ve been reading what’s shaping up to be an excellent book about Ruby on Rails called “Agile Web Development with Rails (Third Edition).”  This book takes a practical approach to teaching Rails by building a demonstration shopping cart application called “Depot.”  I must say that, so far, learning Rails has been a complete pleasure.  I really enjoy the MVC methodology and the idea of “convention over configuration.”  The basic idea behind Rails is that we (as web developers) generally know what we’re doing, and we can follow some...