My Ruby Development Talk
This is kind of a hodgepodge collection of things related to a talk I gave about Ruby development at RPI. In this repository, we have...
gem_playlist.rb: This was my example one-hour project that dealt with piecing together various RubyGems without much prior knowledge of how they work individually. It is certainly far from the paragon of well-written Ruby, but it was left in its state to show what is possible in only one hour.war_final.rb: Toward the end of the talk, we built this game from the ground up, talking our way through the reasoning behind each step. This version is the completed one and contains some comments.notes.txt: These are my unabridged notes that I tried to follow for the talk. I skipped a lot of things to save time, and they're not exactly easy to decipher. If for some reason you really want to see them, then look no further.
I mentioned that there are some resources that you can use to get better at Ruby. Here's a list of some of them.
- Download Ruby - This guide has instructions for different operating systems. It's pretty easy, unless you start installing multiple versions. Then you're in deep if you're not using RVM.
- repl.it - We used this during the presentation. Write code in your browser and play with it in runtime. Quite handy.
- Project Euler - The first 10 problems, at least, are great for testing basic operations of a language and getting some feedback at the end in the form of other visitors' solutions.
- Poker hands - This Project Euler problem in particular was one that I did in very clean Ruby and was actually what made me realize that I was quite fond of the language. We already did some work with cards, so you have a head start.
- why's poignant guide to ruby - This is where I originally learned Ruby. It is quite popular in the Ruby community, particularly for the... quirky narrative scenes it often takes on in between discussing code.
- Learn Ruby the Hard Way - A more straight-forward guide on learning Ruby.
- Codeacademy - Here's another. For free.
- Ruby Documentation - I have at least 5 tabs of this site open at any given time when working on something related to Ruby. Even now it is still an indispensable resource.