After poking around with Ruby on Rails and reading every book and following every tutorial I could get my hands on for over 5 months, I decided to get real and sign up for the Big Nerd Ranch Ruby on Rails course being taught by Charles Brian Quinn, consultant for Highgroove Studios and co-founder of Slingshot Hosting.
I hadn’t previously heard of Big Nerd Ranch, so I was a little worried about the quality of the course, but with the Pragmatic Programmers Rails course being only two days, I felt I needed more time to be completely absorbed in the course material. The Big Nerd Ranch approach to removing you from from all distractions in a quiet, comfortable setting with a very small class size seemed to be just what I needed to focus and regroup.
