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Part One: Learn Ruby With Me - What is Ruby?

Doni on November 05, 2018

I recently just finished my Nanodegree from Udacity, but I wanted to keep busy so I am learning Ruby. I am not sure if I want to go all in on Ruby ...
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Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez

Ruby is happiness, freedom, and fun, all in one, like bubble gum and cotton candy, and unicorns eating candy under a rainbow 🍭 🦄 🌈.

Now seriously. Ruby used to be the "go to" language for startups and freelancers, in the last five years or so has lost a little terrain due to some discussion about it's performance. Nevertheless, Ruby is one of those things that you should learn, cause it will make you a better professional (IMHO).

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Levi ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

I miss writing ruby from time to time. it really is happiness freedom and fun all in one lol

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Ali Alhajji

Learning the syntax without knowing how to apply it in real projects .. this is still my main problem in the programming world!

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rhymes

Hi Ali, what do you mean? Like you don't know what to code or you don't know how to use Ruby well enough to be useful?

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Ben Halpern

I’m always up for a good old fashioned Ruby party.

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Esteban Hernández

Everything in Ruby is an expression.

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Stephen Taylor Witte

Ruby is excellent and so is Rails, I have always loved my time with Ruby, and Rails is still one of the quickest paths to MVP (most times).

There are some downsides to using Ruby, but I would say they exist in most scripting languages.

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joao-gouveia

I've used Ruby in lot of APIs and it is so cool.
The think I like the most is its super low entry cost. Anyone can pick up Ruby.
And who doesn't love the "return if". It is super easy to read.
I just love it.

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Aadesh Shrestha

A gem with its own gems

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Sebri Issam

Ruby is the first programing language I met, and the main reason why I switched my career to be a software engineer. It's the language behind the almighty 'Metasploit' and many DevOps tools, such as 'Puppet', 'Chef', 'Vagrant' ...

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Arnab Sen

Can you add why ruby is used compared to other languages available?

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Phillip Smith

I see what you did there 😁

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Olimpio

I've been looking for resources to learn ruby... Thank you😍. I will stay tuned to learn it not only from here but this tutorials posts will be my jumpstart...

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Doni

Thank you! I hope it will help a lot!