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@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ 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/)
-* [reSRC's List of Free Programming Books](http://resrc.io/list/10/list-of-free-programming-books/#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
@@ -72,10 +71,9 @@ The Rails philosophy includes two major guiding principles:
Creating a New Rails Project
----------------------------
-
-The best way to use this guide is to follow each step as it happens, no code or
-step needed to make this example application has been left out, so you can
-literally follow along step by step.
+The best way to read this guide is to follow it step by step. All steps are
+essential to run this example application and no additional code or steps are
+needed.
By following along with this guide, you'll create a Rails project called
`blog`, a (very) simple weblog. Before you can start building the application,
@@ -92,17 +90,17 @@ Open up a command line prompt. On Mac OS X open Terminal.app, on Windows choose
dollar sign `$` should be run in the command line. Verify that you have a
current version of Ruby installed:
+```bash
+$ ruby -v
+ruby 2.2.2p95
+```
+
TIP: A number of tools exist to help you quickly install Ruby and Ruby
on Rails on your system. Windows users can use [Rails Installer](http://railsinstaller.org),
while Mac OS X users can use [Tokaido](https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp).
For more installation methods for most Operating Systems take a look at
[ruby-lang.org](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/).
-```bash
-$ ruby -v
-ruby 2.2.2p95
-```
-
Many popular UNIX-like OSes ship with an acceptable version of SQLite3.
On Windows, if you installed Rails through Rails Installer, you
already have SQLite installed. Others can find installation instructions