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I'm completely new to Ruby, but am not a stranger to backend dev (.NET, Nodejs).
I've checked out the Ruby Quick start, but aside from that, what resources, whether they be books, online resources, videos etc. would you recommend to someone looking to get into the world of Ruby and Ruby on Rails?
Bonus points if you can suggest an e-book before I go camping in three hours? 😜
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I'm a PHP developer, but Ruby is one of the languages that I started with a couple years back. The Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl is highly recommended back then. I learned a lot from that book that is still valuable even when I'm on a different ecosystem now. Though it's quite geared towards beginners... but it wouldn't hurt to check it out.
Michael Hartl's work is so popular that it's practically the canonical source of Rails. Like, even if it's beginner material, it's worth skimming if only to know what other folks are being taught.
True. We used it to train every intern we hired for about 7 years now. Hats off Michael Hartl♥️
Train on which platform please?, I would like to be a part
To supplement more straightforward tutorials, the Destroy All Software screencasts are absolutely fantastic. Some Ruby stuff, some Rails stuff, some computer theory, Python stuff, it's all over the map, and all incredibly valuable.
I would say that guides.rubyonrails.org is a first place to learn.
Back in the days, RailsCasts and Rails for Zombies was a thing. Nowadays they are not updated anymore (if I remember correctly).
Destroy All Software is really cool!
The Odin Project curates some of the best ruby and rails resources within their curriculum.
Yeah, that's also good.
Hey!
Feel free to reach out for specific questions!
Have fun & good luck!
Exactly
I've recently started using RuboCop in my work as well, which has unexpectedly been a great learning resource. It shows me alternate methods and idiomatic syntax that I didn't know or had forgotten about.
Like with everything tech I want to learn, I start by reading any quickstart guide is listed on the official documentation, then dive right into the guts of the subject. For Rails, this means running
rails newon some empty directory and try to make some kind of app I already know how to build with other languages, for example the evergreen blog platform.Normally, official docs + lots of googling and StackOverflow for every obstacle I encounter does the job nicely (at least for me)
For Ruby, I recommend this book
Effective Ruby
I think it's suitable for someone already has some background in programming and wanna learn more about Ruby.
With Rails, nothing better than doing a project, let try to build your own AirBnB website
I've been doing rails for about 10 years now, back in the days the poignant guide to ruby was a fun way to get familiar with the language. And for rails it's about having the official docs at hand and reading others people's code. Reading some of the most popular gems and how they solve common problems can give you an idea of the things you can do
I can't believe I left out the poignant guide!
Don't forget the latest contender: Semicolon&Sons
The focus is on production web-apps. Instead of toy examples, the screencasts are situated inside a live codebase with a decade of legacy, hundreds of thousands of monthly sessions, and tens of thousands of monthly revenue -- and all the complications that accompany all this.
They are certainly not beginner screencasts, but are there to help people fill in the gaps when they are responsible for a deployed piece of software (ESPECIALLY if they are indie-hackers).
Things like architecture, non-brittle integration testing, data integrity enforced at an SQL level, monitoring and responding to production issues, integrating JS without fad frameworks, auditing gems and JS dependencies, softer stuff like SEO for programmers, etc.
You can check out the kind of content we’ve got here: semicolonandsons.com/series/Inside...
Esp, vouch for Jack Kinsella's Screencasts/YT videos on SEO for Rails n00bs
I second Michael Hartl's book, and Rails 4 In Action is also good (although getting a little dated now).
As a second book, after you've done a tutorial or three and you're wondering "Now what?," I recommend Practicing Rails by Justin Weiss. Both Justin and Michael have been really responsive and they want to help you, so give those a try.
You can take a look at this online course: edx.org/course/agile-development-u...
In addition to ruby and Ruby on Rails, you’ll learn agile development, TDD, design patterns and so on. I highly recommend this corse and the next one. I hope this can be useful to you.
Udemy, youtube, railscasts, obsessive reading (The Bastards book of Ruby, The Well Grounded Rubyist, plus loads of online e-books depending on what I was attempting to achieve at the time). There are so so many tutorial videos that are excellent on youtube too. I also joined a bootcamp, which I can highly highly recommend - just for the shared experience of pairing with other people in the same boat as you!
Agile Web Development with Rails is the one I started with in 2005. Still kicking out the new editions. pragprog.com/book/rails51/agile-we... If you follow along and build the application in the tutorial, you will be productive.
I suppose you have already seen a lot. The Michael Hartl book is good but paid. If you are looking for free ones, I recommend starting with guides.rubyonrails.org, let's build with rails web-crunch.com, YouTube, codecademy(rails course is paid but ruby is free), for ebook, learn ruby the hard way and so on. I will make a post on a complete guide to learn ruby on rails.
After you get to know the basics, this should be the next step for upskilling: Ruby on Rails 6: Learn 25+ gems and build a Startup MVP 2020