Learning Ruby: recommended blogs to read? [closed]

Answer 1

If you want to get a good feel for the community (which is the greatest thing about ruby), take a look at the following:

• John Nunemaker's Rails Tips (really good blog)
• Dr Nic's Blog
• Josh Susser's has_many :through
• Jamis Buck's the { buckblogs :here}
• David Heinemeier Hansson's Loud Thinking

DHH's blog does not really give too much technical insite, but I feel it is really good to read if you want to understand the community. Too many people refer to it when they are writing, plus his posts tend to be interesting (to me).

When bored I like to take a look at Ruby Flow and Ruby Inside, it is a great place to discover new blogs.

Answer 2

Ruby Flow

Ruby Inside

Those two should get you started. Take the advice from others and grab some books and just start hacking away.

Answer 3

@Robert I agree with you to stay away from feeds. Its better to read a book and gain some in-depth knowledge....

However here are some that might help (with Rails and Ruby):

http://www.buildingwebapps.com/podcasts (Rails)

http://www.peepcode.com (Rails)

http://www.learningrails.com (Rails)

http://www.railsenvy.com (Rails)

http://www.bofh.org.uk/articles/category/ruby (RUBY specific)

http://www.pragprog.com (ruby)

Answer 4

Reading blogs isn't the way to learn a programming language. It might be useful after you learn the fundamentals of the language at which point you can:

1. Actually understand and make use of what you read on the blogs
2. Have the foundation necessary to weed out the good stuff from the bad stuff

I would recommend a good book to get you started, the recently released The Ruby Programming Language is probably the best one out now.

Answer 5

Blogs by Why. Oddball but brilliant:

http://hackety.org/

http://redhanded.hobix.com/

Answer 6

Hard to miss...

http://delicious.com/popular/ruby

http://delicious.com/popular/rails