Decided I need to start learning Ruby. Seems like a good language to learn to build web applications quickly. There is such a large community out there and tons of help. I first tried TryRuby.org which was a very very simple warm-up. Really targeted towards people who know nothing about development. Good just to get a small taste. Small interactive tutorial which pretty much holds your hand. I got lost once or twice when I tried to test some other things out. The tutorial got weird, so I needed to back up sometimes. I guess I should just follow the path….
I signed up for a free online Ruby course at http://rubylearning.org/class/login/index.php. It starts in a week, so my goal is to get familiar enough with Ruby to go through this course which will teach me more about how Ruby is used with other technologies.
Now I am on to RubyMonk.com and going to go through their 54 exercises. I am hoping I can blow through these in an hour or 2 to gain a better footing around the syntax. Then I am going to go through RailsForZombies perhaps. I also heard http://railstutorial.org/ is good, so probably going to go through that after these to get some concepts down.
Wish me luck!
Kamil Mroczek 