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Re:Ruby on Rails in a week by raesene9 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:32PM (#24935407)
Those are great resources. One I'd add to it, for general ruby programming, is the Well Grounded Rubyist (https://www.manning.com/books/the-well-grounded-rubyist-thir...) . It's been kept up to date (3rd edition was released in 2019) and I found it very readable and informative.
Re:Ruby on Rails in a week by Gene_Parmesan on Thursday October 29, 2020 @07:04PM (#24937154)
Also I will add Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby, by Sandi Metz (https://www.poodr.com/). It was a great help to me when I was first beginning to self teach programming years ago. A lot of it applies no matter the language; I haven't written Ruby in probably 4 years but the principles in that book guide my programming to this day.
Re:Ruby on Rails in a week by sciurus on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:02AM (#24941027)
Agreed, this is a great book. In the past I used to read and write a lot of Ruby. An earlier edition of the book was the single resource that taught me the most.

The only programming language book I've enjoyed and benefited from as much since then is Fluent Python.

Re:Ruby on Rails in a week by jandinter on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:29PM (#24945386)
Highly recommended! I started with the Rails Tutorial as well and read The Well-Grounded Rubyist afterwards to get more in-depth with Ruby.

After that, I bought Bob Race‘s tutorial Build a Saas App with Rails which covers more practical aspects of building a multi-user SaaS app using well-known gems (instead of building everything by myself as in the Rails tutorial): https://leanpub.com/basair6

Re:Ruby on Rails in a week by ashconnor on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:02PM (#24935841)
Great book. I own the second edition.
Re:Ruby on Rails in a week by jmcgough on Thursday October 29, 2020 @11:18PM (#24938781)
That was one of the books I picked up early in my career and still keep a well-loved, dog-eared copy. It's information-dense without being overwhelming, and teaches a lot of important Ruby concepts. I'm glad to see it's being kept up to date.