rails learning

Making Rails readily accessible to developers of all stripes is a big part of the vision behind the Heroku platform, and we try to be supportive of any initiatives that make teaching and learning Rails easier.

A couple of months ago, thoughtbot released suspenders – a freely available Rails template app, loaded with commonly used plugins, sensible configuration options and helpful rake tasks. Simple as it may seem, having a solid default app template is a really important step in eliminating the barriers that prevent developers from jumping directly from concept to coding with Rails. We think thoughtbot…