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diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index 7000fa408c..ce45dbb2a7 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ curve diving straight into Rails. There are several curated lists of online reso for learning Ruby: * [Official Ruby Programming Language website](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/) -* [List of Free Programming Books](https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md#ruby) +* [List of Free Programming Books](https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md#ruby) Be aware that some resources, while still excellent, cover versions of Ruby as old as 1.6, and commonly 1.8, and will not include some syntax that you will see in day-to-day @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The Rails philosophy includes two major guiding principles: * **Don't Repeat Yourself:** DRY is a principle of software development which states that "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative - representation within a system." By not writing the same information over and over + representation within a system". By not writing the same information over and over again, our code is more maintainable, more extensible, and less buggy. * **Convention Over Configuration:** Rails has opinions about the best way to do many things in a web application, and defaults to this set of conventions, rather than @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ folder directly to the Ruby interpreter e.g. `ruby bin\rails server`. TIP: JavaScript asset compression requires you have a JavaScript runtime available on your system, in the absence -of a runtime you will see an `execjs` error during asset compilation. +of a runtime you will see an `execjs` error during asset compression. Usually macOS and Windows come with a JavaScript runtime installed. `therubyrhino` is the recommended runtime for JRuby users and is added by default to the `Gemfile` in apps generated under JRuby. You can investigate |