Learning Ruby: recommended blogs to read?
Reading blogs isn't the way to learn a programming language. It might be useful after you learn the fundamentals of the language at which point you can:
- Actually understand and make use of what you read on the blogs
- Have the foundation necessary to weed out the good stuff from the bad stuff
I would recommend a good book to get you started, the recently released The Ruby Programming Language is probably the best one out now.
What are some good Ruby on Rails blogs?
There are hundreds and hundreds of good rails blogs.
Here is the OPML from my Google Reader Ruby on Rails section:
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<outline text="Alex Young's weblog"
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<outline text="Alloy Code - Home" title="Alloy Code - Home"
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<outline text="and another thing..."
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<outline text="Application Error" title="Application Error"
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<outline text="Article RSS Feed" title="Article RSS Feed"
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<outline text="Bamboo Blog - Home"
title="Bamboo Blog - Home" type="rss"
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<outline text="Barking Iguana" title="Barking Iguana"
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<outline text="Beech Bonanza" title="Beech Bonanza"
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<outline text="BenCurtis.com" title="BenCurtis.com"
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<outline text="Binary Code" title="Binary Code" type="rss"
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<outline text="Biodegradable Geek"
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<outline text="BlogFish - Blog" title="BlogFish - Blog"
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<outline text="Bloggitation - Home"
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<outline text="Cody Fauser - Show all"
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<outline text="CrazyRails ~ Flex on Ruby on Rails"
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xmlUrl="http://crazyrails.com/feed/atom/" htmlUrl="http://crazyrails.com/"/>
<outline text="Dan Grigsby" title="Dan Grigsby" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://www.unpossible.com/feed/" htmlUrl="http://www.unpossible.com"/>
<outline text="Dan Manges" title="Dan Manges" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/dcmanges" htmlUrl="http://www.dcmanges.com/blog"/>
<outline text="Daniel Fischer - Got Fisch?"
title="Daniel Fischer - Got Fisch?" type="rss"
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<outline text="Darwinweb" title="Darwinweb" type="rss"
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<outline text="delynn - Home" title="delynn - Home"
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xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/delynnberry" htmlUrl="http://delynnberry.com/"/>
<outline text="Depixelate - Home" title="Depixelate - Home"
type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/depixelate" htmlUrl="http://www.depixelate.com/"/>
<outline
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title="DEV_MEM.dump_to(:blog) - Multimedia systems blog"
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<outline text="DevChix" title="DevChix" type="rss"
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<outline text="DevFi :" title="DevFi :" type="rss"
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<outline text="Dr Nic" title="Dr Nic" type="rss"
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<outline text="dweebd" title="dweebd" type="rss"
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<outline text="EdgeCase - Home" title="EdgeCase - Home"
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<outline text="Ed's Elite blog" title="Ed's Elite blog"
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<outline text="eigenclass" title="eigenclass" type="rss"
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<outline text="El Humidor" title="El Humidor" type="rss"
xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElHumidor" htmlUrl="http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/"/>
<outline text="EleventyTen - Home"
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<outline text="Ereblog" title="Ereblog" type="rss"
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<outline text="Err the Blog - Home"
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<outline text="Euruko 2009 Barcelona 9-10 May"
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<outline text="five pound app" title="five pound app"
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<outline text="Freelancing Gods" title="Freelancing Gods"
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<outline text="Geoff Evason" title="Geoff Evason" type="rss"
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<outline
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<outline text="Gluttonous" title="Gluttonous" type="rss"
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<outline text="Hungry Machine Blog - All"
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<outline text="In the Key of E" title="In the Key of E"
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<outline text="John Lam on Software"
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<outline text="Juixe TechKnow" title="Juixe TechKnow"
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<outline text="Libin Pan" title="Libin Pan" type="rss"
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<outline text="LiquidRail - Rails"
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<outline text="Loud Thinking by David Heinemeier Hansson"
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<outline text="Mutually Human Software - Blog"
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How should I learn Ruby on Rails?
I'd definitely recommend using Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial book. I've also found Daniel Kehoe's Learn Ruby on Rails e-book super helpful as well.
On a personal level, finding a project I actually wanted to build, as opposed to just pacing through a tutorial, is what really helped get me off the ground though.
what Ruby knowledge should I have?
This is sort of from the top of my head; I'm sure I am missing a lot. Besides the things mentioned here, understanding programming and object-oriented programming in particular is a must, of course.
A few important language features:
- Realise that in Ruby, everything is an expression, and be able to apply that principle, even if you think it makes your code unreadable.
- Closures are mentioned; I would also expect Rubyists to know the differences between blocks and procs (and lambdas) and know how to convert between them. Closure mastery is important to being able to write beautiful Ruby, in my opinion.
- Operator overloading: know what happens when you define methods named
[],[]=,==,+,<<, etc. on an object. - Be proficient with most instance methods of Array, Enumerable and Hash (even if you don't know the exact definition by heart). Your Ruby code will be so much more verbose if you don't use methods like
collect,inject,join,zip, etc. where appropriate. - Thoroughly understand what Symbols are, and when you should use / avoid them.
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