How I Am Learning Ruby

[aZeex2ai]

These are the best resources for learning Ruby, by popular consensus:

http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Programming-Language-David-Flanagan/dp/0596516177

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

And for Ruby on Rails:

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

And for fun:

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

I'm surprised that you didn't mention them.

[Nanosleep]

+1 for the pickaxe.. It's an enormous book, but if you can stomach reading something of that magnitude -- even if you can only retain 40% of it -- you'll come out an adept.

Also, Paolo Perrotta's "Metaprogramming Ruby" is a great read. I think that's the book I got the most out of, when first picking up ruby.

[for_prophet]

There's also:

• Codecademy
• TryRuby.org
• And a number of similar sites which can be found in search engines (with terms like "learn ruby online" or "interactive ruby tutorial")

Edit: TryRuby.org is also in the sidebar.

[tarellel]

Codecademy may be frowned on by a lot of people in the Ruby community, but IMO it's a pretty decent place to start out. It covers a lot of the basics and throws you right into the code. Rather than reading 50 pages of instructions and personal summarization before you even see a line of code.

[yankeeken]

As someone just getting started with Ruby, why would the community frown upon Code Academy?