Entries Tagged as 'ruby'
Working on the Rails Road
Well, I lost a little momentum last week as I got swamped with work, so I haven’t made as much progress into the Rails book as I would have liked. I guess that’s life. Nevertheless, I’m a bit more than 100 pages in and have a couple thoughts on the book and on Rails.
I’m very [...]
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Learning Ruby, the first milestone!
Well, I got through the book part of the Pickaxe book (I haven’t gone through the reference part). Yay for me! Overall, I must say that I’m impressed with the language and excited to start doing some work with it (although, that will have to wait until I get through my Rails book - the [...]
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Learning Ruby, Part II
Ok.. so yesterday was day 2. Now I’m 120 pages in. Yay.
I was happy to see that I’m not the only one with the scoping issue I had yesterday. Seems it’s a well known issue, although sadly, it doesn’t seem that there’s a resolution in sight. The book assures me that it isn’t really [...]
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On the Ruby Road
So I just got my Ruby books yesterday and started reading the Pick Axe book (you see how hip I am, slinging the lingo already?). I learn languages in what I’ve come to understand is peculiar among most of the people I know. Let me preface by saying I have kind of a bad memory [...]
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Journey into Ruby
Ok, so after much hemming and some hawing I decided to investigate Ruby (and Rails) for my next little side project. It just looks so delightful and I remember liking Ruby a lot when I first played around with it some years back. Rails looks pretty good, some fear that I had with it being [...]
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PHP? Ruby?
Update 4: I think I’m going to go with Ruby. And by think, I’m going to grab some books read them and if I’m still psyched about it I’ll start my project. If I’m not psyched, I may switch to PHP. Now I must find some books… suggestions welcome.
Update 3: Everytime I start leaning [...]
