Year of the Ruby
Posted on August 28, 2007
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Now, I wouldn’t call myself old-fashioned, but tradition is tradition. Every year I commit learning a new (programming) language. This year, is the Year of the Ruby!
I was in my hotel room last night and had 30 minutes to spare. So I googled ‘ruby’ and was not surprised to see that main ruby site http://www.ruby-lang.org is ranked above the actual gemstone itself (It’s like having to google ‘java island’ to get to the island in Idonesia – wierd).
Anyway, moving on, I read the twenty minute tutorial, which is really 10 minutes if you know another language, and was impressed. With twenty minutes left before the witching hour (dinner with a beer), I downloaded and installed ruby and wrote my first application, without a main function. Very nice!
I want more Ruby. If reads like prose compared to a lot of other languages. Let’s see how the rest of the week goes…
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I’ve been learning ruby and ror this year as well. Here you will find couple of links I’ve used and enjoyed :
http://tryruby.hobix.com/ – ruby online with v.nice tutorial
http://hacketyhack.net/ – ruby course for kids
http://onestepback.org/articles/10things/index.html – ruby for java devs
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ – absolutely amazing guide, a must read
Why not go along to the London Ruby User Group at Skillsmatter?
http://lrug.org/
One theme you might want to try either at the group or elsewhere is a Coding Dojo as a way of bootstrapping your skills: http://codingdojo.futureplatforms.com/
Our XP group was keen to host a Coding Dojo and Ruby turned out to be the language of choice. In the end we arranged to go along to a Ruby User Group meeting and hold a Coding Dojo there. What better way to learn than from the Jedi masters?