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Rubyists:
What is the best place for a Ruby beginner like myself to get started?

I took a look here:
ruby-lang.org/en/documentation

Anything else I should be looking at?

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@datn @staticsafe lmao hopefully the guy teaches ruby better than python because he spends a long time complaining about py3 in LPTHW iirc, and just, not being great

@nire @staticsafe well, as in everything developers recommend, YMMV. :) i'm an opsy perl/shell guy myself who's about to teach himself node.js, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@datn @staticsafe yeah its just like, it certainly is the hard way if you go in with the 8 year old bias against spec :P

@staticsafe @datn im looking for my ruby books since i dont have a better one than Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby, which im sure is outdated by now

@datn @staticsafe One way would be to pick up the basics with codeacademy and this book and then jump right into the rails book, it's pretty hands on if I remember correctly.

railstutorial.org/book

@staticsafe everything under "Getting Started" is pretty much spot on.

@staticsafe www.goodreads.com/book/show/520.Learn_to_Program 🙂

@staticsafe I highly recommend Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR) by Sandi Metz. And good call on reading the docs—they're awesome.

@staticsafe The Well Grounded Rubyist is another good one. Eloquent Ruby as well.

@staticsafe theres also tryruby.org/levels/1/challenge which might be too basic for you but is nice from what i remember for people trying to learn a language even if it does cover the fundimentals. but yeah the poignant guide was where all the people i know learned, but its like, five years old by now