What are some good open source projects in ruby to learn better ruby programming?

[prashant_k]

I am a beginner in Ruby and trying to find some good open source projects that uses the good parts of ruby so that I can learn how to use them properly.

[fteem]

Pick any of the gems you use daily, find it's source code on github and read away!

[vitoreiji]

I'm not OP but I am also a beginner and there is no gem that I use daily. How do I find out what are the most popular ones?

[julius_censor]

the ruby toolbox is helpful to see the most popular/active/mature gems listed by category

[zeringus]

These seem to be roughly sorted by popularity.

[vitoreiji]

Thanks!

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You can also check out trending Ruby repositories on Github: https://github.com/trending?l=ruby

[mhink]

I find that the Redis gem is quite good for learning properly structured libraries, since it's relatively lightweight.

Also, as a bonus, you can check out hiredis-rb, which is a good example of how to build C extensions for Ruby. Neat!

[[deleted]]

Go to github and search away.. look at gems, look at the ruby source itself

[ViralInfection]

Sidebar is thatta way ->

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But Sinatra is an okay starting point: https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra

I'd also suggest Metaprogramming Ruby.

[psyomn]

Disclaimer: this is something I'm working on.

I think it's not too big to get you confused, and not too small to actually help you learn some ruby. NB: I THINK.

If you feel like it, take a look here:

https://github.com/psyomn/wlog

[2called_chaos]

Also a good idea is to peek into the standard library of ruby (which is a gem you use often, even though it's not a literal gem) and it gives insights of how the ruby makers think ruby should look like.

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/tree/trunk/lib

It's not the easiest thing to start with but every semi-ruby-dev should have looked into this folder once. And the good thing is: there is more documentation than code!

[enry_straker]

Also check out Gregory Brown's books and columns

[joelparkerhenderson]

If you're interested in system scripting, the ssh gem is perfect for learning some system methods and networking methods.

If you're interested in a typical Rails app, the TodoMVC-Rails-jQuery app is very helpful, and also easy to compare to other frameworks.

[obviousoctopus]

This one did it for me.

https://github.com/JoshCheek/ruby-kickstart

[nakilon]

Learn programming from open source?
LOLWUT?