Waste of Time
3 years ago
Besides Javascript, ruby is the slowest language in the world. It’s not in demand either:
http://www.indeed.com/trendgraph/jobgraph.png?q=python%2Cruby%2Cajax%2C%22ruby+on+rails%22
How to program in Ruby
It made me
great to be starting 
"Its simple, beautiful and elegant. It's also very versatile"
How I did it: I got a job in which I had to use it so bought some books about Ruby and worked some examples through. It's as simple as that. Just plan some time in to do it.
Lessons & tips: Just start. Get a good idea or buy a book and start. Rails and Shoes are good starting apps aswell. Definitly Shoes.
Resources: "Ruby by example" "Why the lucky stiff" but just go to the bookstore and look at what suits you.
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Yeah, now I can say I'm programming in ruby
3 years ago
Remember, I didn’t say nothing about mastership, just programming. And I’m starting to feel really comfortable doing it.
Starting with the pragmatic programmers book
4 years ago
I’ve started with Programming Ruby, The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide.
First I gave a look to the Free Version, then I’ve bought the 2nd edition PDF.
It’s really an invaluable resource – you should buy the PDF or the print edition, the world needs new editions of this book – with a really pragmatic approach to Ruby on Chapter two.
You can get a good idea about ruby basics only with this chapter. If you can program in other languages – let’s say PHP + JavaScript – you will be immediately familiarized with several important Ruby concepts, specially the most important one: all in Ruby is an Object; and all means absolutely all on this language.
I’ve just started to learn Ruby…
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4 years ago
I spend way too much of my spare time coding in C, I need to find some projects where a higher level language is appropriate.
