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Ruby

Posted by Marcelo Retana
Marcelo Retana
2,534 Points

Where to start? (RUBY)

I am about to start with Ruby. I need that you guys help me, I see there Ruby Foundations and Ruby Basics?

4 Answers

robberbaron
robberbaron
23,869 Points
robberbaron
robberbaron
23,869 Points

Hi marcelo,

might be good to do both. Start with Ruby Basics and then go to ruby Foundations. The content is somewhat overlapping but also different. With Ruby Foundations you will have a good repetition of Ruby Basics. I did it the other way round and found that Ruby Basics was still useful.

Cheers Marc

Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points
Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points

Jason Seifer can probably shed more light on this, but we're refreshing our early Ruby content, so Ruby Basics and some subsequent courses will replace Ruby Foundations eventually. I'd definitely recommend taking Ruby Basics first, and then diving into Ruby Foundations.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Yeah, do both Ruby courses (Basics and Foundations), but DON'T start "Build a Simple Ruby on Rails App" unless you know the differences between Rails 3 and Rails 4 and how to switch or 'translate' between them! The course was written in older Rails 3 and in today's Rails 4.1 some things have changed. This caused a LOT of confusion and frustration among Treehouse students, because they downloaded the newest Rails version and tried doing this course. Bad times.

Rob Rouland
Rob Rouland
7,435 Points
Rob Rouland
Rob Rouland
7,435 Points

Don't forget "Build a Simple Ruby on Rails App" where you build the "Treebook" app.

I'd probably do Ruby Foundations first, then simple rails app (treebook) second, then start the longer, deeper Rails Development track.

Hope it helps!