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Ask HN: where to learn ruby?
Any great tutorials on web building app on RoR?
- a_l_a_n 13y agorailscasts.com
- pocha 13y agoSo Ruby & RoR are two different beasts. If you come from hey-I-already-know-a-web-MVC background, you might skip learning Ruby & directly jump to learning RoR . If you go RoR way - Michael Hartl's tutorial - http://railstutorial.org/ http://railstutorial.org/ is probably the best place to start (I did that when I was starting with RoR). Codelearn - www.codelearn.org should be the next best. Disclaimer: I am the founder of Codelearn
- musiic703 13y agoI just saw that. I def want to go through your tutorials. Very excited to learn ruby
- ameister14 13y agoI just started going through your tutorials and I have to say I agree with you. Really well done.
- invdevm 13y agoCodacademy.com is a good place to start learning Ruby. For RoR, lynda.com or treehouse tutorials are very good choices.
- MattBearman 13y agoIf you're already familiar with programming and MVC, I'd recommend rails for zombies (http://railsforzombies.org http://railsforzombies.org) it gives you a good overview of both Ruby and Rails. I came from a PHP / CodeIgniter background, I spent a couple of hours with Rails for zombies, and then just started playing around with rails, using http://guides.rubyonrails.org http://guides.rubyonrails.org and http://railscasts.com http://railscasts.com when ever I could't figure something out. And of course, stackoverflow is a great resource.
- musiic703 13y agoVery cool advice. I'm try this out.
- joaoyc 13y agoAlso, give a go to https://www.hnsearch.com/ https://www.hnsearch.com/. There are plenty of good topics on this.
- chrislawrence 13y agoThe Pragmatic Programmers book on Rails is very good and already updated for Rails 4. If you get through it and still want more, the Rails Way is the most comprehensive book I've seen. Railscasts is great once you are making apps on your own as it tackles small specific problems. Don't forget about the official Rails guides themselves, they are actually quite helpful. I go back and forth on whether learning Ruby first is best. You will learn more about Ruby itself just by solving RoR problems, but I think you would solve them faster if you already had a solid base in Ruby.
- musiic703 13y agoThese are all great advices. I started with php and I can say I'm almost a master at. I've build a social network platform with it and solved many problems with it. Now I want to take it to an all new level and want to convert all my code to ruby format. These tips and advices will help me a lot thanks!
- 6thSigma 13y agoI learned RoR and launched a website in 10 days. If you want to see the tutorials I used I wrote a blog post about it here: http://aschuenemann.com/i-went-from-knowing-nothing-about-rails-to-launching-a-website-in-10-days http://aschuenemann.com/i-went-from-knowing-nothing-about-ra...
- alexgaribay 13y agohttp://www.codeschool.com/paths/ruby http://www.codeschool.com/paths/ruby Codeschool has some great courses in general. Their courses require a monthly subscription, however, if that matters to you.