Are you a beginner or newbie looking to get started with Ruby on Rails? I've compiled some FREE resources to help you get started in just under 6 hours...
I had the opportunity to learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails during my time at Flatiron School and almost immediately fell in love.
Ruby is an extremely accessible language and, in my opinion, a really ideal first programming language. It's a dynamically typed, expressive language that lends itself to being human readable and just a joy to work with.
Recently (as in, today) a friend popped into the Code Cafe Online Discord and asked for advice on learning Ruby on Rails. As a result, I ended up putting together this beginner Ruby on Rails Roadmap of free video courses!
If you're a beginner looking to learn Ruby on Rails, or a developer with experience in other languages looking to add Ruby or Ruby on Rails to your skill set, this should help you get started...
Step 1: Ruby Crash Course
Time Commitment: 4 Hours
Step 2: Ruby on Rails Crash Course
Time Commitment: 1 Hour
Step 3: Ruby on Rails REST API Tutorial
Time Commitment: < 1 Hour
In just under 6 hours, you've gone from a total Ruby newbie, to a Ruby on Rails wiz kid! 🎉
I hope this little learning roadmap is useful to all the future Rubyists out there! If you ever need help or get stuck on your learning journey, you can find me on Twitter and here on DEV. I'm always happy to help debugging some Ruby code!
xx - Emily/TheCodePixi
Latest comments (16)
thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing :-)
Good start! And for Rails 6 in particular, I'd say that this is the most up-to-date course: Ruby on Rails 6: Learn 25+ gems and build a Startup MVP 2020
Thanks Emily for curating this list and finding some free resources. I look forward to checking them out.
The person from Webcrunch Youtube channel just posted a 2 hour long updated rails 6 video on Traversy Media channel. i am going through that right. you can include that in the list as well.
youtu.be/B3Fbujmgo60
Oh that's awesome! Thanks for the recommendation!
This is a great post for a beginner. Thank you
Props to Brad T on the Rails API tutorial, all his courses are so easy to follow and he keeps it all in simple terms. Love him.
Nothing beats Rails for Zombies tutorials
Here another good video as well build a blog with comments
youtube.com/watch?v=wbZ6yrVxScM
Ruby has always been attractive by the very brief insight I've taken on it and responses I've heard from Ruby devs. It's always been on the 'make project with tech X list'.
Same goes for Rust (which I believe holds great future potential).