[LRUG] Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer Silver

[Simon Tokumine]

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/07/rubykaigi-interview-with-matz
http://www.ruby-assn.org/certification/programmer/index.html.en

I'm not normally one for tests, but I took and passed (woo!) the new Ruby
Association Certified Ruby Programmer Silver test today. I booked online via
Prometric and sat it at QA-IQ on Roseberry Avenue in Holborn. Cost £80. You
get 1.5 hours, but you are done by the end of the hour.

The test contents were a bit of a mystery as there are no past papers,
however I did find a hard as nails Japanese sample test here:
http://projects.netlab.jp/ruby-test/

Some thoughts therefore for those non-Japanese speakers who are thinking of
taking it:

1) The English questions are pretty easy compared to the Japanese sample
paper so don't sweat it
2) Read Chapter 9 of RPL, then read it again.
3) Don't spent any time on learning the command line arguments and
Environmental Vars
4) Do spend time on Array Manipulation, Exception handling, Regex
5) Don't really spend so much time on inheritance, mixins etc.
6) It's basically a Ruby grammar test as opposed to a measure of software
engineering, so don't expect any questions on DSLs, Duck Typing, or how to
implement the Decorator Pattern. Just learn the basics.

If anyone's got any questions I'd be happy to answer them, I'll maybe even
try and recall some sample questions from memory.

Si
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