Learning Rails

April 28, 2006

Nice Little Tutorial

Filed under: Ruby Language — joelg @ 3:31 am

http://tryruby.hobix.com/

is a nice little, interactive tutorial. It is an IRB session in a web page, with a tutorial you type along with. Nice intro to Ruby.

2 Comments »

  1. Okay, I’m not stalking you, I swear. Just running head-first into some Rails issues myself, and wanted to comisserate.

    As far as Ruby goes, I’d say you might want to play around a bit with Perl, which I’ve found has very similar syntax. Additionally, there’s a great (and free) PDF book floating around, called “Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby” which is a good overview of the underlying language.

    Comment by Paul Sweeney — January 29, 2007 @ 1:04 am

  2. Paul – I’m running AWAY from PERL. Between the two, Ruby is so much easier. I find PERL needlessly cryptic.

    Now, I don’t program every day, but I can see why PERL is popular. It does so much that’s useful and has the vast CPAN library. But, I think Ruby is easier to learn and does much of the same work.

    The issue for me isn’t Ruby, it’s Rails. I find Ruby a language that fits well with the way I think. As I’m reading “Ruby for Rails” by David Black, I’m beginning to understand Rails better as well.

    I think the problem early on for me was that “Agile Web Development with Rails” didn’t get me where I needed to go with understanding Rails. If the authors user test it and make changes, then I think it’d be a dynamite book.

    I read through Why’s books and liked it, but it doesn’t touch on Rails, if I recall. I do think the Pickaxe book does a good job as well.

    Comment by joelg — January 29, 2007 @ 5:13 am

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