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Ask HN: Where is the best place to learn Ruby?
I've been trying to lean Ruby, and I can't find any good tutorials. Anyone have any (Free?) tutorials they recommend?
- voxx 14y agoThe Pickaxe. Google it.
- GoofyGewber 14y agoThanks!
- Sodaware 14y agoIf you're wanting to learn Ruby on Rails, I highly recommend http://railscasts.com/ http://railscasts.com/
- GoofyGewber 14y agoThank you!
- fananta 14y agoDid you mean Ruby itself? or RoR? For the latter, the Michael Hartl Ruby on Rails Tutorial is pretty good: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/beginning http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/beginning
- GoofyGewber 14y agoWell, you're suppose to learn Ruby before Ruby on Rails right? Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
- glimcat 14y agoIf you have previous programming experience, I don't think that it matters much. You can always look stuff up as you go if you already know enough to know what you're looking for.
- zampano 14y agoHonestly, if you're planning on focusing on Rails eventually, I'd start with the Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl (http://ruby.railstutorial.org http://ruby.railstutorial.org). It's easy to get lost as a total beginner with all the various things Ruby itself is capable of, when you might have better results focusing on a smaller subset of the whole, at least to start. Rails tutorial also has a chapter early on (one of the first five) that contains an intro to ruby and can point you in the right direction from there. Book-wise, you can't go wrong with The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Grounded-Rubyist-David-Black/dp/1933988657 http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Grounded-Rubyist-David-Black/...) to begin with. I found it a lot more approachable than the Pickaxe book early on. Good luck, Ruby was my first language and I learned a lot about learning programming languages from that experience.
- GoofyGewber 14y agoThanks so much!
- benblodgett 14y agoPersonally, I learned Ruby with Rails - this is a pretty good resource - http://railsforzombies.com/ http://railsforzombies.com/
- GoofyGewber 14y agoI was watching this, but to me it was so boring. It seemed helpful, so I guess I'll have to suffer through it.
- gr2020 14y agoHere's a post from a while back on this subject - http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2011/05/16/learning-ruby-and-rails/ http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2011/05/16/learning-ruby-...
- GoofyGewber 14y agoThank you!
- zoenos 14y agohttp://tryruby.org http://tryruby.org
- sparknlaunch12 14y agoStackoverflow is a great resource. The link below is has details on Rails (maybe not best starting point for Ruby) but helpful site to learn and find good resources. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55574/learning-ruby-on-rails http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55574/learning-ruby-on-ra...
- camwiese 14y agoBoom. All you need right here : http://mattangriffel.com/post/15243700892/on-learning-to-code-pt-3-resources-to-teach-you http://mattangriffel.com/post/15243700892/on-learning-to-cod...
- damian2000 14y agoHighly recommend this free 5 week Coursera course out of UC Berkeley. All development is in Ruby and Rails. There is some introductory Ruby material - you don't need to have any prior knowledge. It started last week, but you can join late without a problem. https://www.coursera.org/course/saas https://www.coursera.org/course/saas Oh yeah the optional textbook that goes with it is available on kindle for $10.
- GoingKerouac 14y agoI enrolled today. I wonder what the intentions of these universities are by offering these courses for free. (seriously) hm... It might just be me being a pessimist, but they have to have some kind of evil motive, right? It seems unheard of that any university offers something for free. Found this article about Coursera... http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/18/net-us-usa-college-online-idUSBRE83H0PC20120418 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/18/net-us-usa-college... I guess I'll just enjoy it while it lasts. For the OP I'd suggest why's guide http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.html http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.htm...
- GoofyGewber 14y agoThank you!