I Got Ruby for Christmas
Posted on December 29, 2006
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For fun and profit I decided this holiday to once again dive back into Ruby (and more specifically Rails) and really knuckle down into the language, giving it as many eggnog and Bailey’s-soaked days of effort as I could. It’s a lot of fun - Ruby is a genuinely fun language to write in - and once the syntactic oddities take root in your brain it all starts to make sense.
Want to play along at home on your OS X machine? Here’s the resources I’ve used thus far:
Installation: Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger
Learning: Ruby in Twenty Minutes.
More learning: Learning Ruby. Follow through step-by-step to get a decent overview of the language.
Documentation: Ruby Doc for the documentation. (Guys, what’s up with not having any search feature in the documentation pages themselves? The four-pane layout is cute and all but Docs without Search really sucks).
More documentation: Ruby classes. Also not searchable (wtf?) but still pretty quick to use when you know the exact class you’ll be dealing with.
Even more documentation: Ruby QuickRef. I like this a lot. Very handy after you’ve done the learning bits.
Unit Testing: You never know when the brakes might fail.
Useful Tips: Ten Tips for Rails Beginners, which is just that.
And if you’re completely brand new to Ruby (or even programming in general) you’ll want to take a quick run through why’s (poignant) guide to ruby. If only because every one else using Ruby already has 
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