I think this tutorial is a treasure. It's a great introduction to the entire rails ecosystem, including TDD, git, heroku, and the like. I went through the 3.0 version a while ago, but so slowly (as in, a chapter every couple of weeks) that I forgot a lot of it. To those like myself, working through this in your off hours, I recommend keeping Anki (or equivalent) open and adding notes as you go.
I actually used it when I was getting going with Rails. Trying to install rails on Windows was a nightmare. Your tutorial was so easy to follow and was invaluable right after I had switched over to Mint from Mandriva.
I agree, I had the same problem: I started reading it some months ago but not with the right attitude to do everything, complete it etc.. and then I stopped (not because of lacks in the tutorial but because of me).
Now i'm attending Coursera's Saas Class and I'm sort of forced to do stuff in order to complete homeworks (so i started using git, registered on github and heroku etc..)
I think that after the course I'll come back to this new version of the tutorial, Thanks Michael!
