I'm about to start learning Ruby, Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated!!

#ruby #rails #discuss

Hi All,

I'm a web developer, I use Laravel PHP web framework in my projects, and I wanna learn Ruby so in the future I will be able to use Ruby On Rails. so would you mind suggesting me one of these

Book, podcast, newsletter, tutorial, roadmap, package, etc...

I know I could use Google to search for these kinds of stuff, but I want to take advice from the Ruby community members.

Thank You in Advance

Top comments (12)

lucasprag • Oct 31 '19

I really like these:

The Rails 5 way by Obie Fernandez ❤️
Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz ❤️

I heard really good things about these:

Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen
Exceptional Ruby: Master the Art of Handling Failure in Ruby by Avdi Grimm
Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta, Paolo Perrotta

Kyle Boe • Oct 31 '19

+1 for POODR

Mansour Benyoucef ☕ • Oct 31 '19

Thanks for sharing

I've checked out the books, they look great. : )

lucasprag • Oct 31 '19 • Edited

I'm trying to remember other sources, but so far this is what I got:

I love Ruby -- free online book about ruby ❤️🌟
Upcase by thoughtbot -- good video tutorials about Rails and more
Design Patterns in Ruby by Russ Olsen -- you can have a idea about the content by reading this blog post by Bogdan or this repo

Nick Spinazze • Oct 31 '19 • Edited

Michael Hartl has a fantastic book/tutorial Ruby on Rails Tutorial. That's a great starting point. Then my advice would be to just get your hands dirty and start writing code by contributing to open-source rails projects or start a project from scratch.

For a great primer in Ruby and OO Design Sandy Metz's Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby is amazing.

A more advanced book I'm a big fan of is Rebuilding Rails by Noah Gibs. It really gives you a great understanding of how Rails magic works, which can be initially frustrating as a developer new to its "convention over configuration" mantra.

Mansour Benyoucef ☕ • Oct 31 '19

Thank you for the list of resources,

I've heard lots of recommendations, to read this book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz, I'll read it first for sure.

thank you again : )

kyegupov • Nov 6 '19

I would strongly advise against using Ruby. It's slow, documentation is not world-class, a lot of the libraries (Rails especially) use metaprogramming magic that is hard to understand and debug. Ruby project have a lot of maintenance problems. Ruby's popularity has been on steady decline for years.

In my opinion, Python is far superior to Ruby in terms of implementation and documentation (as a bonus, you can extend your expertise beyond web development very easily).

Also, as of 2019, Node.js has matured well and is a very capable development platform, especially if you use Typescript. The demand for developers is quite high.