If you're working in Rails then I think you can get a lot of benefit from reading/writing some "pure" ruby code. Rails has a lot of its own ways of doing thing

If you're working in Rails then I think you can get a lot of benefit from reading/writing some "pure" ruby code. Rails has a lot of its own ways of doing things, so it can be nice to see how to solve problems without using it's help. For things to read, these books are a little old now but I liked them . https://www.manning.com/books/the-well-grounded-rubyist-second-edition https://www.manning.com/books/the-well-grounded-rubyist-seco... and http://eloquentruby.com/ http://eloquentruby.com/