What are/were your go to resources for learning Ruby and Rails?

I'm a PHP developer, but Ruby is one of the languages that I started with a couple years back. The Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl is highly recommended back then. I learned a lot from that book that is still valuable even when I'm on a different ecosystem now. Though it's quite geared towards beginners... but it wouldn't hurt to check it out.

To supplement more straightforward tutorials, the Destroy All Software screencasts are absolutely fantastic. Some Ruby stuff, some Rails stuff, some computer theory, Python stuff, it's all over the map, and all incredibly valuable.

The Odin Project curates some of the best ruby and rails resources within their curriculum.

Hey!

1. I'm curating a resources list on GitHub, my suggestion is to
2. join the ruby on rails slack community of that list ( #beginners_and_mentors channel )
3. start learning with railstutorial.org
4. maybe dive into the ruby exercises of exercism.io
5. gorails.com & railscasts.com are the go to video channels.

Feel free to reach out for specific questions!

Have fun & good luck!

• Ruby Koans: Learn by testing, using Minitest.
• CodeAcademy: Introductory projects for both Ruby and Rails.
• CodeFights: Programming puzzles to solve in the language of your choice. This is fun because you get to see how much shorter the solutions are in Ruby compared to many other languages.😀 Also has competitive/social features if that's appealing to you.

I've recently started using RuboCop in my work as well, which has unexpectedly been a great learning resource. It shows me alternate methods and idiomatic syntax that I didn't know or had forgotten about.

Like with everything tech I want to learn, I start by reading any quickstart guide is listed on the official documentation, then dive right into the guts of the subject. For Rails, this means running rails new on some empty directory and try to make some kind of app I already know how to build with other languages, for example the evergreen blog platform.

Normally, official docs + lots of googling and StackOverflow for every obstacle I encounter does the job nicely (at least for me)

For Ruby, I recommend this book
Effective Ruby
I think it's suitable for someone already has some background in programming and wanna learn more about Ruby.
With Rails, nothing better than doing a project, let try to build your own AirBnB website

I've been doing rails for about 10 years now, back in the days the poignant guide to ruby was a fun way to get familiar with the language. And for rails it's about having the official docs at hand and reading others people's code. Reading some of the most popular gems and how they solve common problems can give you an idea of the things you can do

I second Michael Hartl's book, and Rails 4 In Action is also good (although getting a little dated now).

As a second book, after you've done a tutorial or three and you're wondering "Now what?," I recommend Practicing Rails by Justin Weiss. Both Justin and Michael have been really responsive and they want to help you, so give those a try.

Don't forget the latest contender: Semicolon&Sons

The focus is on production web-apps. Instead of toy examples, the screencasts are situated inside a live codebase with a decade of legacy, hundreds of thousands of monthly sessions, and tens of thousands of monthly revenue -- and all the complications that accompany all this.

They are certainly not beginner screencasts, but are there to help people fill in the gaps when they are responsible for a deployed piece of software (ESPECIALLY if they are indie-hackers).

Things like architecture, non-brittle integration testing, data integrity enforced at an SQL level, monitoring and responding to production issues, integrating JS without fad frameworks, auditing gems and JS dependencies, softer stuff like SEO for programmers, etc.

You can check out the kind of content we’ve got here: semicolonandsons.com/series/Inside...