Ask HN: You have 1 week to get as good as possible at Ruby. What do you do?

Posted by MarcelOlsz on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:46PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey guys, coming from a JavaScript/nodejs background. Haven't touched something OOPy in years. I was wondering if any of you veterans could recommend solid resources that have helped you. I'm trying to get up to speed within a week enough to be able to do some basic features.

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: You have 1 week to get as good as possible at Rub... by Minor49er on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:01PM (#30152518)

Create a site in Rails that can perform some basic functionality, or a simple API in Grape if you want something lower level.

Personally, I would make use of something simple and interesting like the Discogs API for my project to interact with and create something like a music genre browser or application to connect artists who have worked together:

https://www.discogs.com/developers/

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Re:Ask HN: You have 1 week to get as good as possible at Rub... by MarcelOlsz on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:22PM (#30153712)

Perfect! That'll do. Thanks.

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Re:Ask HN: You have 1 week to get as good as possible at Rub... by Minor49er on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:14PM (#30154467)

Now you'll have to create a Show HN when you're finished! :D

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Re:Ask HN: You have 1 week to get as good as possible at Rub... by MarcelOlsz on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:34PM (#30154779)

That's assuming it ever leaves my github aka my code graveyard (where sideprojects go to die).

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Re:Ask HN: You have 1 week to get as good as possible at Rub... by TiredGuy on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:06PM (#30156076)

I really enjoyed Ruby Koans. I feel like it gave me a solid feel for the language in a fairly short amount of time.

http://rubykoans.com/

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Re:Ask HN: You have 1 week to get as good as possible at Rub... by tra3 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:20AM (#30164673)

That's really neat. I like how it goes bottom up. I usually jump into dev with a new language and have to look up every function. This way you build up your knowledge of the language API from the ground up. neat.

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Re:Ask HN: You have 1 week to get as good as possible at Rub... by doublewaffle on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:17AM (#30175065)

https://open.appacademy.io/learn/full-stack-online/ruby

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Re:Ask HN: You have 1 week to get as good as possible at Rub... by jakobov on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:15AM (#30177807)

amphetamines :)

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