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Why’s “Try Ruby” Back Online

59 points by Hagelin 17y ago

rogeriopvl 17y ago
It's great that this is back online again. I got lot's of people trying ruby thanks to this.
quizbiz 17y ago
Warning, a very "newb"ish question: I completed his tutorial inside my browser. Buw what now? How do I do that permanently on my shared server which allows me to create a rails application via cpanel. How do I "populate it with [my] code"?
- mikeryan 17y ago
  This isn't a small question and is largely going to depend on your shared server. First generally you're going to do most of your development locally and then deploy it to your server. If you're just starting out then check out the RadRails IDE. It does most of the heavy lifting for you and makes it really easy to get going. After that look at something like capistrano or vlad the deployer for getting the site onto your webserver.
  - bts 17y ago
    Or Heroku instead of cap/vlad. Makes getting a quick rails app deployed and up-and-running very easy.
- callmeed 17y ago
  If you have shell access to your shared server, I'd recommend getting in there and doing some more Ruby commands (via irb). If not, I'd recommend getting a slicehost/linode account (even if only for a month or two) and practicing there. From there, learn how to install/use gems, various Ruby libraries, and the structure of Rails apps.
- steveplace 17y ago
  Check out heroku
shadytrees 17y ago
> We will be back in a few hours. Someone discovered a security hole. They reported it, but not until someone else thought it would be cute to drop a rootkit in. If Mister McElroy is reading this: Interesting! Was it a problem with _why's sandbox? (I don't think the original Try Ruby was ever exploited in the short time I kept a tab on it, and beyond that I haven't a clue; but I couldn't find any security commits in a quick scan of the changesets.) http://github.com/whymirror/why_sandbox/commits/ http://github.com/whymirror/why_sandbox/commits/
johnfn 17y ago
Whenever I try to do 40.reverse, the thing errors out on me, and it wont let me progress any more through the tutorial. Kind of disappointing. I remember doing this thing before and it was quite fun.
- colbyolson 17y ago
  Didn't work for me either, though I didn't know I could skip it, which is great to hear. I'll have to visit it again. Edit: Not having an up button to cycle through the history kills me.
- carbon8 17y ago
  You can type next to move to the next lesson.
oink 17y ago
http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/ http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/
bmelton 17y ago
This was what I honestly considered the biggest loss with regards to _why's disappearance. I am literally ecstatic to have this back online. The only thing that could make this better would be if it were presented by _why (him|her)self.

59 points by Hagelin 17y ago

It's great that this is back online again. I got lot's of people trying ruby thanks to this.

Warning, a very "newb"ish question: I completed his tutorial inside my browser. Buw what now? How do I do that permanently on my shared server which allows me to create a rails application via cpanel. How do I "populate it with [my] code"?

mikeryan 17y ago
This isn't a small question and is largely going to depend on your shared server. First generally you're going to do most of your development locally and then deploy it to your server. If you're just starting out then check out the RadRails IDE. It does most of the heavy lifting for you and makes it really easy to get going. After that look at something like capistrano or vlad the deployer for getting the site onto your webserver.
- bts 17y ago
  Or Heroku instead of cap/vlad. Makes getting a quick rails app deployed and up-and-running very easy.
callmeed 17y ago
If you have shell access to your shared server, I'd recommend getting in there and doing some more Ruby commands (via irb). If not, I'd recommend getting a slicehost/linode account (even if only for a month or two) and practicing there. From there, learn how to install/use gems, various Ruby libraries, and the structure of Rails apps.
steveplace 17y ago
Check out heroku

shadytrees 17y ago

> We will be back in a few hours. Someone discovered a security hole. They reported it, but not until someone else thought it would be cute to drop a rootkit in. If Mister McElroy is reading this: Interesting! Was it a problem with _why's sandbox? (I don't think the original Try Ruby was ever exploited in the short time I kept a tab on it, and beyond that I haven't a clue; but I couldn't find any security commits in a quick scan of the changesets.) http://github.com/whymirror/why_sandbox/commits/ http://github.com/whymirror/why_sandbox/commits/

johnfn 17y ago

Whenever I try to do 40.reverse, the thing errors out on me, and it wont let me progress any more through the tutorial. Kind of disappointing. I remember doing this thing before and it was quite fun.

colbyolson 17y ago
Didn't work for me either, though I didn't know I could skip it, which is great to hear. I'll have to visit it again. Edit: Not having an up button to cycle through the history kills me.
carbon8 17y ago
You can type next to move to the next lesson.

oink 17y ago

http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/ http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/

bmelton 17y ago

This was what I honestly considered the biggest loss with regards to _why's disappearance. I am literally ecstatic to have this back online. The only thing that could make this better would be if it were presented by _why (him|her)self.