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MacRuby keeps coming along. 2 years ago

OK I’ve done some work on clojure. I’m making that a separate goal and I think MacRuby will be the Ruby I pick. 2 years ago

hello dear how ru i am romy from india 2 years ago

I learned Ruby in 2007, and I’m very glad I did. Of the 6 or so programming languages that I’ve used for large projects, Ruby is by far the most powerful and best designed.

I learned Ruby (from the Pickaxe Book) more or less in the course of learning Rails, though I’d probably recommend that others not do this: it’s best to get a grip on the language itself before learning a complex framework on top of it.

And of course, the Ruby community is very much into proper development practice—testing, refactoring, modeling stuff correctly, that sort of thing. Learn from them! 2 years ago

Recently looked into Clojure and Scala. I might want to go with one of them instead. Perl 5 is making a comeback and Perl 6 looks like it might pass over Ruby. ROR seems like it has flatlined.

I may have missed the bus on this one. 2 years ago

I read Matz’s entry in Beautiful Code and decided I had to learn Ruby. I’ve been working my way through the pickaxe and loving the language so far. Everything just seems so clean and elegant. 2 years ago

Well, I decided to keep just the pickaxe (Programming Ruby 1.9) and The Ruby Programming Language, by Matz.

I’m already studying the blocks/iterators/procs. Its a very complete and complex language, even more I’m coming from PHP, most of the things are new for me.

If you are a beginner, I recommend just the pickaxe, but if you are an experienced programmer with background in another language, take the Matz’s book. Or both, just as me, for a complete reference! 3 years ago

I am a computer engineering student & I want to work & learn on project. 3 years ago

I have re-started this goal. Following the closure of my local Borders book shop I got loads of Rails and Ruby on Rails books half price.

Also, I have just returned from 6 months in Germany, back in south of Ireland with lots of peace and quiet so determined to get a couple of decent apps up and running 3 years ago

Even though I am an experienced PHP and Web developer (12 years of experience), I want fresh air. So, I decided to learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and I’ll try to change my way of working.

1. Programming Ruby (3rd Ed. the “pickaxe”).
2. The Well Grounded Rubyist
3. Beginning Ruby From Novice to Professional
4. Humble Little Ruby Book (available free http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com)
5. The Ruby Programming Language (from Matz)

I know it’s a bunch of books, but I just love to have where to look and I the one I most recommend is: The Well Grounded Rubyist. It’s just amazing.

For the ones that are in a hurry: http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com is very small! 3 years ago