Ruby: The Last Eight Years

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by r4um • 11 years ago

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sapsan• 11 years ago

That was nice to read. Ruby is new for me, so here's a question: is there some classy guide (like LYAH for those who start learning Haskell) for Ruby newbies?

joeriel2• 11 years ago

I prefer my guides to be a little bit trashy

joeriel2• 11 years ago

Jeez - I was just making a joke since the parent was asking for "classy" guides rather than "classic" guides.

tel• 11 years ago

Not perhaps what you're looking for but the whole style of fairly zany intro guides began with "Why's Poignant Guide" for Ruby.

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

duaneb• 11 years ago

LYAH was actually inspired by _why the lucky stiff's Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

wldcordeiro• 11 years ago

The only problem with _why's book of course is that it's older and has examples that no longer work. That said though I found it a fun little read when I needed to get up to speed with some Ruby for a project recently.

harshreality• 11 years ago

I would suggest rubykoans, in addition to (even possibly instead of) a normal guide or book: http://rubykoans.com/

petercooper• 11 years ago

A lot of Ruby is about the ecosystem and tooling nowadays (like Java, ironically!) so https://howistart.org/posts/ruby/1 might be a useful starter as it really digs into that side of things, with the code part being mostly obvious in nature.

roneesh2• 11 years ago

Depends on how you're a newbie!

New to coding - Chris Pine's Learn to Program is THE book. I like it more than Why's guide, or any website.

New to OO - Try Sandi Metz's Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby, this book should be your second ruby book, as it teaches you how to write good Ruby.

New to Rails - Try the Hartl tutorial or Agile Web Development with Rails

New to Command Line Apps - Build Awesome Command Line Applications in Ruby, it's an O'Reilly book I liked.

Advanced Ruby - Confident Ruby by Avdi Grimm, along with his Ruby Tapas screncasts.

Buttons840• 11 years ago

What book would you suggest for someone who is "New to Ruby"? What if I want to learn Ruby without Rails?

Skoofoo• 11 years ago

The best guide to Ruby that I've seen is "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide". http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

gowan• 11 years ago

I would recommend Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta if you know how to program but are new to metaprogramming.

lessthunk• 11 years ago

Great article, by a very experienced Ruby hacker. Wish he were as active in the community again, as he once was. Rumor says he is also looking into elixir these days :-).

MrBra• 11 years ago

It seems every Rubyist is looking into a variant of Ruby these days, expecially those which compile down to machine code, usually.

I don't see it as a bad thing... it can only improve the Ruby environment in the long run..

Ruby: The Last Eight Years

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