Ok going forward I am trying out iTerm for my terminal and Visual Studio Code for my editor. Don’t know if these are best practices or anything, but when I was trying to pull down code from GitHub in just the default MacOS Terminal, it felt clunky. So I am running through the Ruby Koans tutorial because it seemed more complete to me. I am a programmer, I just am not a Ruby programmer. So I know that I want to look at code structure, not just a dinky hello world app that doesn’t give me any real world code feels. So I am going to run through these and see what I learn. Also pulled down a couple books and might start in on one of those, but for right now I just need to get my hands on some code that I can read.
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Ruby Koans – Is this the path to Ruby enlightenment
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Given this was a year ago and your bio suggests you're now a ruby engineer, what were your steps after the koans? I'm a c# dev interested in pursuing a similar path!
I actually didn't end up doing too many koans. I do like the TDD approach, and do a lot of Rspec testing in my day-to-day. Actually for getting started in Ruby I really like the book Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen for people who are transitioning from another language. I did Learn Ruby the Hard Way for a while, but it was going kinda slow for me, but I did like the approach for the hands on learning. Otherwise, it helped that I was doing Ruby/Rails at my job, and learning from experienced Rubyists. Also recommend any of the courses from Avdi (avdi.codes/)
Hey, I'm trying to figure out the ruby learning path as well and I'm looking for suggestions. Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen seems pretty outdated, am I right?
I haven't found it too outdated, sure Ruby has more features then when it was printed but the main code style, patterns and usage of the different classes (think Struct, Hash, Array, Symbol...) those kind of things aren't going to change too much.
Could u please specify the book names and link to the konas you are trying?
Sure, I am working through rubykoans.com/ and I am just using the online resources and the code download. Right now I am working on koans/about_objects.rb:34:in `test_small_integers_have_fixed_ids', which is just 14 out of 282 of the koans.