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Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous
Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous is a tutorial introduction to Ruby, an elegant and intuitive object-oriented programming language that is especially known for its use in web development. After this series, you'll be in a position to collaborate with millions of devs around the world, even if you're not a developer yourself (yet!), or continue your growth as a developer as you build towards the Ruby on Rails Tutorial.
330 pages, ebook
Published September 5, 2018
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November 18, 2023
I'm brand new to coding in Ruby and a friend of mine suggested I try this book. Well, actually he suggested I start with the Ruby on Rails tutorial first because I had some minor coding experience in HTML and Python years ago. I got about 25% through the Rails tutorial before I realized I probably did need to go through the Ruby book first. It probably took me around 5 weeks to finish this tutorial, putting in about 4-6 hours a week.
This book includes:
- Starting from the ground up on basic programming topics like strings, arrays, hashes, functions, methods ect
- How to use map, select, and reduce which are very powerful ruby methods
- What are objects, classes and inheritance
- How to do test-driven development and how to incorporate testing into your workflow
- How to use shell scripts to read from documents or URLs
- Creating and publishing your own Ruby Gem that tests if a string is a palindrome
- Creating your github repositories, and how to push/pull your work to it.
- Creating a final project that wraps your newly created gem in HTML and lets you interact with it via a webpage that is published.
I learned a lot and I'm ready to go back to the ruby on rails tutorial now!
This book includes:
- Starting from the ground up on basic programming topics like strings, arrays, hashes, functions, methods ect
- How to use map, select, and reduce which are very powerful ruby methods
- What are objects, classes and inheritance
- How to do test-driven development and how to incorporate testing into your workflow
- How to use shell scripts to read from documents or URLs
- Creating and publishing your own Ruby Gem that tests if a string is a palindrome
- Creating your github repositories, and how to push/pull your work to it.
- Creating a final project that wraps your newly created gem in HTML and lets you interact with it via a webpage that is published.
I learned a lot and I'm ready to go back to the ruby on rails tutorial now!
February 24, 2019
Pretty great introductory book. It covers all the basics you would expect from a typical introductory language book, but I appreciated that it shared some insights on larger software engineering concepts as well.
For example, it places an emphasis on "shipping" code, including helping the beginner deploy a working web app through Heroku. The book also touches on ideas like TDD and effectively abstracting pieces of code.
For example, it places an emphasis on "shipping" code, including helping the beginner deploy a working web app through Heroku. The book also touches on ideas like TDD and effectively abstracting pieces of code.
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