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So...I'd really, really love to expand my marketability and learn Ruby On Rails, but what's a good way to do it??
It seems all the books on RoR get mediocre reviews.
A couple of tech headhunters recommended CoadeAcademy.org, but 1) they meet during the day, and I have a day job, so that's a no-go, and 2) at $6000, that's extremely prohibitively expensive!
Where I'm enrolled in grad school they have a Ruby On Rails program for professional web developers, but 1) they meet three nights a week and it conflicts with my existing schedule, 2) you have to be an experienced professional programmer (I'm not -- I've only done web programming freelance), and 3) there's a nonrefundable application fee to get into the Ruby On Rails program.
Why is this such an elitist thing to get into???
It seems all the books on RoR get mediocre reviews.
A couple of tech headhunters recommended CoadeAcademy.org, but 1) they meet during the day, and I have a day job, so that's a no-go, and 2) at $6000, that's extremely prohibitively expensive!
Where I'm enrolled in grad school they have a Ruby On Rails program for professional web developers, but 1) they meet three nights a week and it conflicts with my existing schedule, 2) you have to be an experienced professional programmer (I'm not -- I've only done web programming freelance), and 3) there's a nonrefundable application fee to get into the Ruby On Rails program.
Why is this such an elitist thing to get into???