>>ISTR Rick Borup has gotten into RoR in a big way. He's not on this forum much anymore.
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>Thanks for the info. Just wrote to Rick and asked him to please make comments in this forum about his experience with Rails, especially from the point of view of someone coming from VFP.
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>Alex

Hi Alex,

I gave a presentation at Southwest Fox in October last year on Ruby (the language) and Ruby on Rails (the framework). It was designed as an introduction and jump start for VFP developers who want to learn Ruby on Rails. I’m planning to publish that paper on my website in the near future, so I’ll post a link here on the UT forum as soon as it’s ready to go in hopes that it may prove useful.

There appears to now be a growing number of VFP developers (or at least former VFP developers) who are actively getting into Ruby on Rails these days. I hope some of them will also participate in this new forum. It should become a good resource for all of us.

As for resources, there are literally dozens if not hundreds of good Ruby on Rails reference and tutorial sites on the Web, with seemingly more coming online all the time. I hope to publish a list of the ones I've bookmarked along the way, as soon as I can figure out a way to properly organize a list of that size so it's useful.

The Ruby and Rails community itself is also large and quite active. I follow several of them on Twitter - anyone interested can see my public Ruby and Rails list at http://twitter.com/rickborup/ruby-and-rails.

Good luck with your own exploration of Ruby and Rails. I’ll think you’ll have fun with it!

-Rick