Introduction

I've always believed that the best way to test (and revise) your own knowledge of a topic was to see if you could teach it to somebody else, and this is what I'm going to attempt to do with Ruby and Rails. There seems to be a lack of decent tutorials that move beyond the basic "Look! Scaffolding!" stage (if that makes no sense, don't worry, I'll explain later) or others waste time explaining very basic programming concepts (like variables or loops). Unashamedly, I intend to pitch this at people at myself: having a reasonable knowledge of another languages (in my case, ASP) and web technologies like HTML but being knew to the whole object orientated business, and thus finding ruby/rails a bit challenging.

There are a couple of important points though:

• I'm a beginner myself. If there's a mistake, I'll fix it - please email me if you see something you think should be changed.
  
• I'm stupid, and like to take baby steps. I'm sorry if that infuriates you, but nothing fustrates me more then when a tutorial author makes a huge leap, failing to explain something important.

If you'd like to help me with this, please drop me a line!