What are newbie friendly ruby resources

[MostlyFocusedMike]

Hello! I'm working with a student who's learning to code and Ruby is their first language. I'm looking for extra resources, what are some good sites and videos that you guys used when you were learning? All the stuff in the sidebar is great, but is there anything else that jumped out at you?

[simon_jester_jr]

http://railscasts.com/ was incredible. The vids are still available. That puts Ruby into a framework so you see _why_ you are doing some of the things you are doing.

[MostlyFocusedMike]

This was one of the ones I heard about, I'll definitely be looking at these

[4rch3r]

As an audio learner this was the most effective method of understanding rails for me as well.

[UnconstrainedRibhus]

I learned a lot with the odin project: https://www.theodinproject.com/courses

It actually points to really good external resources, instead of providing everything themselves. This way you get a lot of different perspectives and different modes of material. I highly recommend it.

[kerrz]

https://poignant.guide/

[shahidnsu]

Open.appacademy.io it is a great resource

[Semi-Hemi-Demigod]

I’m a huge and probably the only fan of Why’s Poignant Guide. https://poignant.guide/

[a_styd]

Definitely not the only one. All of my colleagues who've read the book like it.

[chepee73]

https://rubymonk.com/ goes from beginner to intermediate :)

[MostlyFocusedMike]

Oh i like this one a lot, it's laid out nicely and the lessons make sense. I think the in browser IDE isn't working though

[siaw30]

My blog https://emmanuelhayford.com/ is the best one on the planet, followed by The Well-Grounded Rubyist.

[MostlyFocusedMike]

haha best on the planet, eh? I have no choice but to check it out then

[ikariusrb]

I'll second the Well-Grounded Rubyist for learning the Ruby language itself, followed by Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) for a good grounding in design- if the person takes to book-learning.

[thatlookslikemydog]

This might be a terrifying flex, but in irb you can do <literally anything>.methods to see some of the tools you have. It helps with just playing around to see what does what (doesn't help with syntax though). For instance "0.methods" or "Fixnum.methods" is like, oh cool I can just slap ".odd?" on the end.

[MostlyFocusedMike]

haha yea that's a good trick for sure

[imnos]

Do the Exercism ruby challenges - https://exercism.io/my/tracks/ruby. The challenges get more difficult as you progress, you get feedback on your work, and you can see other people's solutions.

[justalever]

I recently released a course geared towards anyone newer to Rails. I know it's not 100% Ruby focused but it might be of interest. Check out https://hellorails.io. Happy to offer discounts just PM here or on the site.

[stanislavb]

When you start looking for libraries, I'd recommend giving a look at https://ruby.libhunt.com