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Ark Shraier
Ark Shraier

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I'm Ruby/Rails Developer and love it, Ask Me Anything!

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Ark Shraier • Edited

Previously I worked with PHP. Elixir and Crystal are great candidates to learn.

When somebody asking me about good/best language, usually I'm saying that good developer should learn new language every year. Just be curious and open for new ideas.

Let's go deeper than frameworks names, they're all MVCs, so in every framework you'll have routes, controllers, views, business logic.
So what is the difference between them: language syntax, WTF/minute factor,
documentation(books), community etc.
Besides, you have Postgresql/Mysql for persistence, Redis for structure storage, caching etc.
Conclusion: language/framework itself is only a part of equation.

Rails is not hype anymore, but it's robust and I love working with it. It's developer friendly when you understand how Ruby OOP/metaprogramming works. Otherwise you may feel that everything works using black and white magick :)

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Ben Halpern

Have you checked out the dev.to Rails code yet?

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Ark Shraier

Sure thing!
1) Starred repo
2) Went through issues list
3) Thinking how can I participate

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juankOrtiz

1) How did you learn Ruby and Rails?
2) Which feature (or features) of the language you like the most?
3) Have you made big applications or web pages?
4) What is your advice to all the rubyists who are learning or using the language?

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Ark Shraier • Edited

1) learning by doing micro projects to explore some specific feature
2) Language and infrastructure (libraries, gems, tutorials) matters, not only language itself. Ruby has great readability, Rails has almost everything you need to start
3) Small and medium projects, I guess
4) (it's not mine advice) Read book and TYPE CODE, make micro projects, get through stuckness using Google and brain πŸ˜ƒ

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

What drew you into Ruby and Rails, and what made you stick with it?

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Ark Shraier • Edited

It happened after I listened/watched DHH's and Jason Fried's interviews, also reading Jason Weiss, Sandi Metz, Avdi Grimm and other guys.
I liked their mindset and started going deeper with concepts and way of thinking. Now I'm lazy developer who wants smart way of building software.
And I think using Rails framework β€” is the way I was looking for