Re:From PHP to Ruby, join me on my journey
by crazydiamond on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @12:44PM
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You'll find a lot of very helpful people on the ruby-forum.
I moved over from many years of java programming, and have loved what ruby has to offer. Meta-programming, open classes, closures, mixins and plenty more -- and I am not even hard-core.
Do read some source code of projects like Choice, Highline to get an idea of what ruby can do. If you like the command-line, I developed rbcurse while learning ruby.
Re:From PHP to Ruby, join me on my journey
by joelg87 on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @12:58PM
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Thanks for the words of encouragement :)
I've heard a lot of great things about Ruby and I feel like I've finally "conquered" PHP in a sense (although you can never fully know anything), so I'm looking forward to seeing the differences with regards the language and also the frameworks. I've seen people rave about the syntax, so I'm looking forward to some really readable code.
Re:From PHP to Ruby, join me on my journey
by joelg87 on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @05:50PM
(#1362484)
Awesome :) I don't think you're the only one who has been tempted ;) Check up on my progress and start learning too if you like the look of it! Looking forward to chatting in the comments.
I moved over from many years of java programming, and have loved what ruby has to offer. Meta-programming, open classes, closures, mixins and plenty more -- and I am not even hard-core.
Do read some source code of projects like Choice, Highline to get an idea of what ruby can do. If you like the command-line, I developed rbcurse while learning ruby.
I've heard a lot of great things about Ruby and I feel like I've finally "conquered" PHP in a sense (although you can never fully know anything), so I'm looking forward to seeing the differences with regards the language and also the frameworks. I've seen people rave about the syntax, so I'm looking forward to some really readable code.
Will look into the open source projects, thanks!
You might find this helpful. File operations. Most of the perl cookbook has been done in ruby on this site.