Why is there such a big gap between Ruby an RoR here?

Hi, Elian Kloppenburg

Anyone else had this experience?

You're not alone, other students posted similar complaints on the forum from time to time. Frankly speaking, if you're jumping into Rails track without any prior back-end development experience, there's no way you are not getting totally lost in the building a todo app rails course. The course is not meant to be a gentle instruction to Rails basics. It's more like you follow along with the instructor and do what he does during lecture in order to get a feel about the flow of developing site using RoR, very little explanation on the Rails' terminology was thrown along the way.

If you check out Treehouse's Ruby/Rails library, we've some wonderful courses on the subject, many of 'em not included on the Ruby/Rails track, but sadly, there's not (at least not yet) a course that can replace the building a todo app, the only possible alternative is Build a simple Ruby on Rails Application, it's a great course, but it's quite dated as it was created using Rails v 3.x I believe.

RoR basics course or something in there. Even if it's just a short one cause it might be very similar to Ruby itself. But, now, it just feels like something is missing.

Currently Treehouse does not yet have the course to fill in the gap. But I'd like to ask you to check out this book Learn Ruby on Rails: Book One,, it's a book not a video course, but as far as its content is concerned, this book fits the bill, it bridges the knowledge gaps for developers who are jumping from Ruby to RoR, everything from Gemfile, to MVC, to deployment were explained in an easy-to-understand manner, this book will give you a rock solid foundation to take on the more advanced Rails learning materials.

Hope it helps. Happy coding.