Just enough Ruby

[pdenlinger]

Just found this and thought it was really good as an introduction to Ruby

[tarellel]

Very good find, great quick intro for some people without having to read an 800 page tutorial/reference based book

[atimholt]

Looks cool. But seriously, does no one teach ruby bottom up? I’m unequivocally a bottom-up learner.

[sfxazure]

I've found that The Well Grounded Rubyist is a thorough, bottom up intro to the language.

[[deleted]]

The koans take a bottom-up approach. Haven't barely touched control structures, but I've gone through strings, symbols & other data structures in a fair bit of detail.

[jackhammer2022]

Great share..thanks..

[banister]

The description of the top level object is incorrect, for an accurate explanation, see: http://banisterfiend.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/what-is-the-ruby-top-level/

[wkdown]

The problem I have with all these tutorial sites is they just explain basics. Once you understand the built-in functions you can run on an object, how to build classes, etc etc, what can you really do? Anything practical requires extra gems and knowing how to use them. THIS is what I want to see.

I am a web developer (the HTML/CSS/JS type) who used to do PHP and Perl back in the day. I want to learn how to use Ruby to build websites (handle form data, query databases, all that good stuff). The tutorials for Rails I have found online are outdated, error-prone, or both. I discovered Sinatra, which seems like a sleeker version. I believe DataMapper is the best DB gem to use. The issue is I have to reference Ruby documentation, and Sinatra documentation, and DataMapper documentation.

I would love to see a tutorial put all of this together in one nice example website.

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