Learning Rails on your own? Are you attempting the “self-taught” route to learn Ruby on Rails? That’s how I learned. But books, blog posts, and screencasts were never enough to get the ball rolling for me. I’d get through some examples, and lose motivation. Ever find a screencasts that answers ALL your questions? Me neither. [...]

Update: As pointed out in the comments & elsewhere, these bad practices are common to those learning many (most?) programming languages, and are not necessarily specific to Rails. My experience is just with teaching Rails, where I see these often, so that’s the context in which I can assert that they are common. But if these hit [...]