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List of Resources for Learning Ruby

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An earlier hn post about learning Ruby (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4068633) got me thinking and since I haven't seen a good list of Ruby learning resources all together in one place in a while I put together a few of what I think are some of the better resources, in no particular order - most are just ruby, a few are for Rails. I'm sure I've missed a few good ones so let me know what those are.

(1) tryruby.org

(2) The Bastard's Book of Ruby http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/

(3) Pragmatic Studio Ruby Course - http://pragmaticstudio.com/ruby

(4) Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen

(5) http://www.rubymonk.com/

(6) http://www.rubykoans.com/

(7) Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta

(8) codeschool.com

(9) Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial- http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

(10) The Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernandez

(11) http://www.railscasts.com

Comments

I know that tryruby is based off of why's guide, but here's his great book in HTML form

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.htm...

I'd also recommend Zed's book as a place to do some exercises. It is pretty much a straight port of his Python book, so you won't learn the idioms, but it's still well structure

http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/

Ah - I knew I was forgetting something! why's book is a must read for sure.

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