Learning Ruby

[goofy]

With all the buzz of Ruby on Rails I'm interested in learning more. I know a little PHP and MySQL but far from guru so I'm wondering how much of a learning curve it is to learn Ruby on Rails and is it worth the effort?

[Fenrir2]

It's worth it if you plan to make database backed web sites.

The learning curve isn't steep if you already know how to program.

[satishtalim]

It would also help if you learn Ruby to really understand what happens in a Ruby on Rails application.

[goofy]

I haven't ever looked at Ruby or Ruby on Rails but I'm pretty interested in looking into it further. I'm looking at getting the book Agile Web Development with Rails.

[pjleonhardt]

That is a good book, but I also suggest Programming Ruby. It will definately help you learn the language before digging into Rails. I read a bit of Programming Ruby, and then had it next to me for reference when I started looking at Agile Wev Dev with Rails.

[goofy]

I had a look at this site where you can do a few basic tutorials on Ruby. http://tryruby.hobix.com/ Nice site too, all the learning is dynamic and in the browser. Pretty cool. Ruby kind of seems a bit like actionscripting in flash.

[Wynter]

Hey,

I recently started to learn Ruby, but use Ruby on Rails. I suggest you use that, it's great.

Download it : http://www.rubyonrails.org/

and then learn : http://www.rubyonrails.org/docs

That website alone will get you running on ruby. Don't worry about backend MySQL connection with ruby, as it is REALLY easy.

Enjoy!