[LRUG] Converting from the dark side

[Najaf Ali]

For experienced programmers (and beginners as well in some cases) my usual
recommendation is The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. Black.

-Ali

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:48 PM, James McCarthy <james at lety.co> wrote:

>  Keep in mind that Rails is not Ruby, a lot of people know how to use
> rails but cannot really do anything else using Ruby.
>
> Rails is a great framework for what it does (webapp), have a look at other
> types of tasks (system administration scripts is something Ruby has taken
> over from Perl a little).
>
> James.
>
>
> On 02/06/15 12:38, Jay Greasley wrote:
>
>  Hello all,
>
>  I'm a bit of a dinosaur, having started with COBOL through Visual Basic
> 3, classic asp and then onto the asp.net stack.
> But, I'm really interested in moving over to using Ruby.
> I supported an old Rails 2.3 app a couple of years ago and liked the
> syntax and flexibilty.
> I have a new work opportunity where Ruby appears to be a good candidate
> for the product.
> Has anyone else made a similar move?
> My main question is what one book would you recommend to start with.
> Is it the Pickaxe book?
> I'm sure it'll take a while to change mindset to appreciate
> metaprogramming etc.
>
>  All responses are much appreciated
>
>  Best
>
>  Jay
>
>
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