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Ask HN: Where is the best place to learn Ruby?

by GoofyGewber on 5/23/12, 9:51 PM with 19 comments

• by fananta on 5/23/12, 9:56 PM

  Did you mean Ruby itself? or RoR? For the latter, the Michael Hartl Ruby on Rails Tutorial is pretty good: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/beginning

• by sparknlaunch12 on 5/23/12, 10:33 PM

  Stackoverflow is a great resource. The link below is has details on Rails (maybe not best starting point for Ruby) but helpful site to learn and find good resources.

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55574/learning-ruby-on-ra...

• by damian2000 on 5/26/12, 2:29 AM

  Highly recommend this free 5 week Coursera course out of UC Berkeley. All development is in Ruby and Rails. There is some introductory Ruby material - you don't need to have any prior knowledge. It started last week, but you can join late without a problem.

  https://www.coursera.org/course/saas

  Oh yeah the optional textbook that goes with it is available on kindle for $10.

• by Sodaware on 5/23/12, 9:55 PM

  If you're wanting to learn Ruby on Rails, I highly recommend http://railscasts.com/

• by camwiese on 5/26/12, 4:57 AM

  Boom. All you need right here : http://mattangriffel.com/post/15243700892/on-learning-to-cod...

• by gr2020 on 5/23/12, 10:15 PM

  Here's a post from a while back on this subject - http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2011/05/16/learning-ruby-...

• by benblodgett on 5/23/12, 10:13 PM

  Personally, I learned Ruby with Rails - this is a pretty good resource - http://railsforzombies.com/

• by zoenos on 5/23/12, 10:19 PM

  http://tryruby.org

• by voxx on 5/23/12, 9:55 PM

  The Pickaxe. Google it.