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Jenny Stoffel
20,709 PointsRuby project experience?
I am looking for recommendations about ways to get some Ruby project experience. I have tried going to related hacking meetups but often there are bits and pieces which need to be done, but no discrete project and often it takes longer to get up to speed with the thing you're trying to work with itself then one is able to actually work on it.
Or maybe you have done a starter project that you really liked doing and would recommend.
Ideas?
2 Answers
Stone Preston
42,016 PointsJust ruby or ruby on rails?
If you are wanting to get some rails experience there is an awesome tutorial called the railstutorial. Its hands down the best tutorial on Rails and web development in general. In the tutorial you build a sample web application similar to twitter from scratch. No scaffolding involved. You also roll your own authentication system which is awesome. It also covers testing in depth using MiniTest
The tutorial is pretty long (12 chapters that will probably take 3-4 hours for each chapter if you write the code yourself instead of copy/paste), but its definitely worth it. And reading the eBook online is free. The author offers screencasts/print + eBook downloads for sale as well, but ive not used them.
Jenny Stoffel
20,709 PointsCool! Thanks for this recommendation, Stone, I will take a look at it. Ruby on Rails is what I was primarily thinking.