<div dir="ltr">I've just stumbled upon this list <a href="https://github.com/dreikanter/ruby-bookmarks">https://github.com/dreikanter/ruby-bookmarks</a><div><br></div><div>It looks quite up to date.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nicolas Alpi, cookies eater</div>Ruby on Rails, Javascript developer at CookiesHQ<div><a href="http://www.twitter.com/spyou" target="_blank">@spyou</a> :: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=28535699" target="_blank">nicolas.alpi</a> :: <a href="http://www.cookieshq.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.cookieshq.co.uk</a></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Matthew Valentine-House <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew.valentine-house@futurelearn.com" target="_blank">matthew.valentine-house@futurelearn.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="ltr"><div>I put together a reading list on Github a while ago for my own use, but it might be helpful.<br><br></div>PR's for excellent recommendations are also very much welcome.<br><br><a href="https://github.com/eightbitraptor/reading_list" target="_blank">https://github.com/eightbitraptor/reading_list</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 June 2015 at 09:43, Jay Greasley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jay@firecomputing.co.uk" target="_blank">jay@firecomputing.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Wow,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you all for the really helpful replies. I'll try and summarise them all into a or blogpost for anyone else with a similar question.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Cheers</div><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Jay</div></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Alex Reis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@alexmreis.com" target="_blank">alex@alexmreis.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="ltr">+1 for Eloquent Ruby. Ruby syntax is easy to grasp, it's getting the "Ruby way" under your fingers that is the real challenge. <div><br></div><div>You might want to grab "The Rails Way" as well to get to know the framework better. I don't know if it's been revised for Rails 4, but even if it isn't, just knowing what is possible to do with the framework and what is the "conventional" way of doing things goes a long way and the core APIs haven't changed much.</div><div><br></div><div>Alex</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Riccardo Tacconi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rtacconi@gmail.com" target="_blank">rtacconi@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="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/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">http://rosettacode.org/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://rubyquiz.com/" target="_blank">http://rubyquiz.com/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.codewars.com/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">http://designpatternsinruby.com/</a>. Then you could get even better with Sandi book <a href="http://www.poodr.com/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">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"><div><div><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><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,Ar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