Rails Tutorial (and Railsspace w/ Aurelius) are what I used to learn rails. Your teaching style and practical implementation worked where other resources didn't. Thanks so much for not only releasing this but continually revisiting it and keeping it fresh.
It's also super refreshing to see the changes made to the TDD approach in this revision. I run a small community coding programme for people new to programming and whilst we love referring to Rails Tutorial (among other things), the students often get massively disheartened when they have to face the dreaded wall of testing before they can actually produce something tangible. I completely get the merits of TDD, but I definitely favour the 'produce something interesting, get excited about it and then revisit it and understand how it works' approach for newer students.
Expanding on the idea of 'redefining success', I love how he explained that if the answer to the "What can I do to make you happy?" question was too complex to implement, he'd just keep asking different people until he found problems that were relatively easy to solve.
I also found it interesting that they felt the need to include a photo of Satya looking chilled out in a hoodie. Just feels really forced - it seems completely out of character based on all of his other imagery / appearances elsewhere.
There is nothing wrong with the guy wearing suits to work if he wants, but it seems that they're trying unnecessarily hard to make him fit some sort of cool geek stereotype.
It's also super refreshing to see the changes made to the TDD approach in this revision. I run a small community coding programme for people new to programming and whilst we love referring to Rails Tutorial (among other things), the students often get massively disheartened when they have to face the dreaded wall of testing before they can actually produce something tangible. I completely get the merits of TDD, but I definitely favour the 'produce something interesting, get excited about it and then revisit it and understand how it works' approach for newer students.