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Re:How did you learn RoR? by edawerd on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @06:09PM (#25514)
Does Agile Web Development with Rails have a section on learning Ruby? I'm wondering if I can kill two birds with one stone with this behemoth of a book
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Re:How did you learn RoR? by damir on Thursday May 31, 2007 @02:43AM (#25595)
Most of the things in Ruby are objects, so you can try using plain english (ie. my_array.length, my_array.each {|element| puts element, ...).

If you get stuck, here's two links I use the most: http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ http://api.rubyonrails.org/

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Re:How did you learn RoR? by jamesbritt on Thursday May 31, 2007 @12:39PM (#25693)
That reference link refers to Ruby 1.6.

You'll find more current info at http://www.ruby-doc.org

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Re:How did you learn RoR? by inklesspen on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @06:28PM (#25516)
Not really, sorry. If you know Python or a similar language well, you can probably get by without a dedicated Ruby resource, because AWD does have lots of examples, and it has a 13-page ruby tutorial appendix. But I wouldn't recommend it.
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