[ale] Ruby for sysadmins?

[DJ-Pfulio]

Get the book (or read it online) - If you already know OOP, RoR isn't fairly
easy and intuitive.

The http://rubykoans.com/ teach Ruby via hands on exercises and TDD, but
learning the language really wasn't the hard part. Keeping up with the annual
changes to Rails was tough for a few years. Things were being moved around. Once
you get used to RoR, you can step into any RoR project/deployment and know where
things are with only a few small differences.

"DJ-Pfulio" is my rapper name.  I'm still JD. ;)


On 02/27/2015 02:21 PM, leam hall wrote:
> Hey DJ, just a note. I'm one of the long distance ALE'rs.   :)
> 
> Leam
> 
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:13 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>> There's a Ruby meetup in ATL that teaches RoR to beginners. They meet every
>> other Saturday at GGC. The classes begin in the fall, so joining now will mean
>> you are about 6 chapters behind. Catching up is possible. They use a good book
>> https://www.railstutorial.org/ and online environments for the class.  An older
>> version (2nd ed) of the book goes through setting up your own RoR dev
>> environment using rvm (best practice).
>>
>> I'm willing to help folks setup their RoR dev environments at the GA-400 LUG on
>> Sundays.  There are other Rubists who are willing to help at their meetings too.
>>  The ATL ruby group is all over ATL, they have code-jams almost weekly
>> somewhere, training sessions, and monthly meetings.
>>
>> Setting up the development environment can be hard for people
>> a) new to Linux
>> b) new to F/LOSS programming languages on Unix
>> If you are familiar with these things - shouldn't be too hard to do on your own.
>>
>> Lots of Ruby devs put gists on github for all sorts of things - setting up a dev
>> environment is one of the most popular.  Google finds all these things easily.
>>
>> On 02/27/2015 01:56 PM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
>>> codeacademy.org <http://codeacademy.org> might be of some interest to you, Leam…
>>>
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