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by qxb
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My first two steps: I started from nothing with Pine's Learn to Program, and then moved on to Learn Ruby the Hard Way. http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/ After you've got the basics, the best way to learn is to have a problem to solve or need to address. About halfway through LRTHW I started making notes on little programs I could try to build once I'd finished the course. None were very original: a custom contacts book, a script that scraped football scores and added them to a text file, a simple single-serving website that told me the weather for my area. My learning spiralled out from there. Finally, this is an online version of the famous Pickaxe book, which I found to be a good reference. I wouldn't recommend it as a first port of call if you're new to programming, but once the terminology (object, class, method, variable etc) has sunk in it's useful for looking things up. http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ Have fun! |
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The language is now at 1.9.3, and while things are fundamentally the same there are assorted little differences.
Still, as a free intro to the language it's not bad.
If you want to buy a book I'd suggest The Ruby Programming Language, as well as anything by Gregory Brown or David A. Black.
Greg also produces the Practicing Ruby newsletter which I cannot recommend highly enough.
http://practicingruby.com/
Greg does amazing stuff.
See also http://university.rubymendicant.com and http://blog.rubybestpractices.com