How to Learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails

11 May 2009 at 23:32 by Joao Cardoso

If you are interested in learning Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails, this article provides you with great starting points. No books or money required.

Before reading any further, you should be aware that learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails will probably make you hate pretty much everything else you need to use on your daily life.

Learning Ruby

The best free learning resources I found so far for Ruby are:

• Learn to Program, by Chris Pine
• Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Learning Ruby on Rails

Before diving into learning Ruby on Rails, you should probably learn Ruby if you haven’t. Ruby is a very easy language to learn, especially if you already have some programming experience, so you can even learn Ruby while learning Rails.

A great starting point is the official Ruby on Rails guides.

Once you know the basics, there’s always Ryan Bates with his great Railscasts.