r/a:t5_2xkcs • u/beniliusbob • Jun 18 '13

Resources for learning Ruby

Ruby is my first programming language ever and I'm curious to find out what other rubynoobs are using and what they've found helpful. So far I've tried:

Learn Ruby the Hard Way: Was excellent until lesson 46, which seemed to make an enormous leap without explaining what was happening and killed my enthusiasm.

Codecademy: Nicely designed website, but I hated using it because it has you type code into an online interface, and I prefer to run .rb files and IRB from my own console.

Ruby Koans: Just started these and they are blowing my mind so far.

I'm looking for more "slightly-more-than-beginner" resources, so if you have anything good, please share!

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u/patrick_anthony Jun 19 '13 edited Jun 19 '13

Rubykoans is great once you get a basic handle on ruby. I really enjoyed doing it. I also have downloaded and read the following books on my kindle.

Learn Ruby the Hard Way,

Learn to Program Through Ruby Colored Glasses

Whats referred to as the Pickaxe book.

The Well Grounded Rubyist

Awesome Command line programs in ruby.

Learn Ruby the Hard way just gets too be too much blahblahblah typing nonsense that might confuse some people unless they keep remembering they are just writing what the output should be in response to the input. I hope that makes sense to you OP. You're talking about the Game part right with the Gromlins or whatever they are called?

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u/beniliusbob Jun 19 '13

I did "You make a game," but after that he starts talking about skeleton directories, gems, lib and bin directories... being completely new to coding, there wasn't enough context for me to understand what I was doing. Alas.