The Simplicity of Ruby

When I first started this blog, I was learning Ruby and I loved it.

This was before starting freeCodeCamp or Zed Shaw’s Learn Python the Hard Way series ¹.

When I decided I wanted to program for a living, I found some meetups and went to my first one in 2014, Code & Supply where Ruby was the topic; getting it set up on our systems and writing a pretty simple Ruby program.

Ruby was so simple. Take this, for example:

class MyClass
  def initialize(name, age)
    @name = name
    @age = age
  end
end

If you know anything at all about OOP, you know what is happening here.

Where the beauty of Ruby lies is in its eerily easy to read syntax.

class MyClass

👆 Creates a class where we’ll hold all our objects and methods.

def: define. Here we are defining a method initialize with two local variables: name and age. We assign them to the instance variables @name and @age in order to use them outside of the object’s scope. We end the method and class with the end keyword.

Outside of the OOP instance variable syntax, this is super easy to read and understand.

First Day Feels

It is 10pm and I really need to get to bed soon. But I just wanted a chance to write about how patient the team at here at dev.to has been with me as I learn the ropes.

On-boarding was a breeze and I have already started digging into the codebase.

My first day was fraught with nerves and expectations that I had for myself ².

Remembering that I am not the sole developer on a project and I have a team to refer to is taking some getting used to. The team is great and I definitely ask questions: have never been shy about that. I am just so damn shy and quiet. This is something I am working on.

It has been a great first week so far and I am looking forward to the weeks to come.

1. LPTHW is quite opinionated and I am not sure if it is still recommended to new developers. ↩
2. And very little sleep. Trying to fix that. ↩