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Depends on how you're a newbie! New to coding - Chris Pine's Learn to Program is THE book. I like it more than Why's guide, or any website. New to OO - Try Sa
by roneesh 11y ago
Depends on how you're a newbie!
New to coding - Chris Pine's Learn to Program is THE book. I like it more than Why's guide, or any website.
New to OO - Try Sandi Metz's Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby, this book should be your second ruby book, as it teaches you how to write good Ruby.
New to Rails - Try the Hartl tutorial or Agile Web Development with Rails
New to Command Line Apps - Build Awesome Command Line Applications in Ruby, it's an O'Reilly book I liked.
Advanced Ruby - Confident Ruby by Avdi Grimm, along with his Ruby Tapas screncasts.
- Buttons840 11y agoWhat book would you suggest for someone who is "New to Ruby"? What if I want to learn Ruby without Rails?
- chao- 11y agoIf you have experience in another language, and once you've gotten the Ruby syntax loaded into your brain (e.g. procs, lambdas, if/unless as a modifier, case statements, define a class, how optional parens work) I can recommend two options: 1. The Pickaxe Book (Programming Ruby by PragDave). You can read the book itself, but one thing I love is that it explains the entire stdlib in an appendix. I learned a lot just by keeping it near the bathroom and flipping through that appendix a few times each day. 2. POODR by Sandi Metz (referenced above) is about OO but you will also get a sense of how to write non-web, pure Ruby applications in a general sense.
- sciurus 11y agoTry The Well-Grounded Rubyist. I appreciate that it focuses on the language, not the standard library. http://www.manning.com/black3/ http://www.manning.com/black3/
- roneesh 11y agoChris Pine's Learn to Program! It's a great book that both introduces coding concepts and Ruby really well.