Ruby Courses

[Andy Wojnarek]

Hello all!

I am unix Sysadmin, from king of prussia area, who has recently fell in love with Ruby. I've done some sysadmin'ey type ruby scripts, but I feel I've hit a learning wall.

My question is can you recommend any courses in the area for ruby? If not any reputable online courses? Something with a lot of hands on lessons.

I'd like to get a strong grasp on Ruby before I look at Rails. I see a lot of courses for rails, but not a lot of straight ruby.

Thanks for any input,
Andy W.

[Justin Campbell]

Andy, I've been thinking about doing this for a few months now, and have been working on a syllabus. I'm still not quite sure how to structure the course/courses: how often they should be, how long, how much Ruby vs Rails to do, paid/free portions...

Would you be available for a Skype call sometime in the next week? I can be reached at cmsJustin. If anyone else is interested in attending or helping with a local course, I'd love to talk to them as well.

-Justin

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[Andy Wojnarek]

Sure. I'll contact you early next week. What's important to me , and I think a lot of people try to learn, is a syllabus that is structured with REAL stuff. Not just theoretical work, stuff that has real working application.  


I would say make it all paid, even if it's not expensive.. There are so many free 'courses' out there with just a cookie cutter syllabus. 

-Andy 

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[Justin Campbell]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm definitely keeping real-world examples/exercises in mind.

-Justin

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[Dwyer, Mike]

I have to agree... a little money puts skin in the game, so to speak. I'd be interested too. I've been doing Ruby a couple years now and still find myself writing ruby code that looks suspiciously C#-ish, lol (and ouch).

Depending on what's in this course, another might be valuable that creates a non-trivial application or gem that benefits from code being organized in a particular way with rationale, etc. behind it. I still find myself going "where do I put this?" especially when under pressure.

Mike

Thanks,

Mike

[Ron Carter]

I was exposed to Ruby recently while taking a class through
coursera.org. The focus of the course was SaaS, but they used RoR and
began with several lectures to teach the language. I know for a fact
that those lectures are still online on Vimeo. They may have been
mirrored elsewhere. I post the link when I find it.

You can get more info here:
https://www.coursera.org/course/saas

Ron