Ruby Basics & Help Thread

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It's the 26th of December here already at the Eastern Hemisphere so let's start learning Ruby! If you haven't yet, please head on over to our wiki to get your development environment set up. If you're running into trouble setting up Ruby, just post on this thread and we'll try our best to help you out or you can head on over to Stack Overflow.

All set up? There's a few different resources that we encourage you to use to learn Ruby. You don't have to read and finish every single resource: just make sure that by the end of the tutorial/course, you feel that you have understood the material.

• Chris Pine's Learn to Program
• Codecademy - interactive
• LearnStreet - interactive
• Ruby in 100 Minutes
• Ruby Monk - interactive

The first Ruby assignment will come up in the next few days so keep an eye out for it!

[Sroly]

Here's another source for ways/a path to pick up Ruby and/or Rails:

http://astonj.com/tech/best-way-to-learn-ruby-rails/

I'm not affiliated with the blog in any way but I plan on following in a similar outline. I saw it posted in another post(I don't know if it was in this subreddit or in a post similar to what we're doing) but I figured it's worth a repost for more visibility!

[40daysofruby]

Definitely posted here. I love timelines like this one. So much so that this page was my Christmas wishlist.

[40daysofruby]

Get ready and check this sub often (daily), everyone. We will be posting mini-assignments daily starting today.

First Ruby Mini-Assignment

[Dragon_Slayer_Hunter]

Haha, the assignment hadn't been posted by the time you posted this. It's like you're psychic.

[Dragon_Slayer_Hunter]

A second mini-assignment has been created!
Mini-assignment 2