Getting into Ruby
Now that Ruby on Rails 1.0 has been released, I realize I better get back to coding, or I'm going to be left in the dust, again. It’s happened many times before; I'll start to get interested in something new that’s just come out, and maybe tinker with some code for a while, only to get busy with something else. Then, while everyone else is riding the wave and showing all the neat things they've built, I'm left playing catch up. I really don’t want that to happen again.
Thanks to work, I have a limited, but free, account at Safari Books Online. Ruby is still not a hugely popular language (though thanks to Rails, that’s really changing), so there’s only a couple of Ruby books on Safari. So, for the next few weeks, I'll devote some spare time to going through Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days. It’s several years old, and may be somewhat outdated, but it’s the best they have. I own the Programming Ruby book, but it’s not as much tutorial as it is a reference book.
I've learned enough Ruby and Rails to get a few projects off the ground (like my neglected photolog) and a few other half-started projects here and there. I want to learn more, so I can do more. So, here we go!
% ruby -e 'puts "Hello World!"'