Learning Ruby: recommended blogs to read? [closed]

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Question

I'm about to start learning Ruby and would like a bit of reading material to help me into it.

I'm looking for your top 5 blogs, news and any (active) bulletin boards (I can handle newsgroups fine, but I prefer reading in a BB) on Ruby.

Thanks,

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Solution

Reading blogs isn't the way to learn a programming language. It might be useful after you learn the fundamentals of the language at which point you can:

  1. Actually understand and make use of what you read on the blogs
  2. Have the foundation necessary to weed out the good stuff from the bad stuff

I would recommend a good book to get you started, the recently released The Ruby Programming Language is probably the best one out now.

OTHER TIPS

@Robert I agree with you to stay away from feeds. Its better to read a book and gain some in-depth knowledge....

However here are some that might help (with Rails and Ruby):

http://www.buildingwebapps.com/podcasts (Rails)

http://www.peepcode.com (Rails)

http://www.learningrails.com (Rails)

http://www.railsenvy.com (Rails)

http://www.bofh.org.uk/articles/category/ruby (RUBY specific)

http://www.pragprog.com (ruby)

I assume you already know about why's poignant guide, but just in case, it's a good starting point. That and the pickaxe book.

I know you asked for blogs etc, but those two are pretty much essential reading.

Ruby Flow

Ruby Inside

Those two should get you started. Take the advice from others and grab some books and just start hacking away.

Blogs by Why. Oddball but brilliant:

http://hackety.org/

http://redhanded.hobix.com/

you can start with the basis here: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ and then on www.rubyflow.com you will find every day several links to tutorial and news about Ruby.

Not a blog, but a(nother) book. You can read Programming Ruby for free online.

why's poignant guide is great, so is the free online Programming Ruby.

They are what I'm reading right now.

If you want to get a good feel for the community (which is the greatest thing about ruby), take a look at the following:

DHH's blog does not really give too much technical insite, but I feel it is really good to read if you want to understand the community. Too many people refer to it when they are writing, plus his posts tend to be interesting (to me).

When bored I like to take a look at Ruby Flow and Ruby Inside, it is a great place to discover new blogs.

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