<div dir="ltr">Although I started with Rails, I realised I was using a DSL to develop web applications. So I read Eloquent Ruby and a bit of the Pickaxe book. The I was following Ruby Tapas and listening to <a href="http://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/">http://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/</a> (postcast). I found useful Ruby challenges in the following web sites:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://rosettacode.org/">http://rosettacode.org/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://rubyquiz.com/">http://rubyquiz.com/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.codewars.com/">http://www.codewars.com/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Plus, Russ Olsen did not only wrote Eloquent Ruby, but he wrote Design Patterns in Ruby: <a href="http://designpatternsinruby.com/">http://designpatternsinruby.com/</a>. Then you could get even better with Sandi book <a href="http://www.poodr.com/">http://www.poodr.com/</a> which explains OOP in Ruby. Another book covering OOP and the DCI design patterns is <a href="http://clean-ruby.com/">http://clean-ruby.com/</a> and the same author wrote another book on how to write a DSL in Ruby.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 June 2015 at 16:21, Sam Livingston-Gray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geeksam@gmail.com" target="_blank">geeksam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>+1. Eloquent Ruby is one of the few tech books I've read cover to cover and enjoyed all the way through. It's a screencast, not a book, but you might also find Ruby Tapas useful for picking up Ruby idioms.<br><br><div>--</div>(Sent from phone. Please excuse: brevity, top posting, hilarious autocorrections.)</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Jun 2, 2015, at 5:17 AM, Lucas Mbiwe <<a href="mailto:lucas@geek4good.com" target="_blank">lucas@geek4good.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Hi Jay,</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Welcome to the community!</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">On 2 June 2015 at 13:53:18, Jay Greasley (<a href="mailto:jay@firecomputing.co.uk" target="_blank">jay@firecomputing.co.uk</a>) wrote:</div> <div><blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span><div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks. I'm keen to understand Ruby first. I know my way round the mvc pattern, if not the Rails specifics. At this stage I don't know if Rails is overkill for the project so am aware of keeping a very open mind.</div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>I've heard good things about The Well-Grounded Rubyist. So I'm sure picking up a copy of it wouldn't be a mistake.</p><p>I personally prefer Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olson, as it covers all the language specifics with a strong focus on idioms (“Write Code That Looks Like Ruby”). It even covers metaprogramming and touches on building gems (a bit outdated but the basics still apply).</p> <div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- Lucas<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><span class=""><br><span>Chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org" target="_blank">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></span><br><span>Archives: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org" target="_blank">http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org</a></span><br><span>Manage your subscription: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/options.cgi/chat-lrug.org" target="_blank">http://lists.lrug.org/options.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></span><br><span>List info: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org" target="_blank">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></span><br></span></div></blockquote></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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