New Zombie : Looking for Ruby on Rails Mentors, Community and Advice

[Gabriel Lim]

Hello all,

My name is Gabriel, and I am new to the tech/hacker scene in
Singapore. I am looking for a group of like-minded Ruby on Rails
hackers and mentors to enlighten me along the path of learning Ruby on
Rails. So I thought I would introduce myself to this community, and
find out where you guys normally hang out, and if it's cool for me to
pop by and say hello.

Abit about my programming background (it's pathetic really). I picked
up programming around 3 months ago, prior to that, I have never wrote
a single line of code in my life. I started with PHP, having picked up
some books about PHP and MYSQL, and I was led through an abyss of poor
instruction online on my own.

This was until I found Ruby on Rails a month ago, and I finished
reading Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl, Programming Ruby (The Pickaxe
Book) by Pragmatic Programmers and Agile Rails Web Development (4th
Ed), and wrote a few applications... now I've burned all my PHP books
and I'm officially a convert.

I was wondering if anyone has any advice on where to go next to
further my learning of Rails/Ruby and programming in general.. and any
open source projects you guys are working on now that I could
participate in.

Thanks,
Gabriel

[Yasith Fernando]

Hi there. You might want check out eloquent ruby. And you could always read the source of some popular matured Ruby projects like rails!

IMHO you will need to really use your skills to sharpen them. So may be you should start doing a little hobby project to say.... solve some problem you have been facing or something to make your life easier.

Have fun!

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[David Chua]

Hey Gabriel,

Welcome to the community!

There's a SRB meetup today at HackerspaceSG (70A Bussorah Street) 7.30pm, you should drop-by if you can make it! :)

David

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[Gabriel Lim]

Hey Yasith,

Thanks for the advice! I've been hearing about this eloquent ruby book
quite often, should get my hands on it soon..

Hope to see you around at the next SRB meeting!

Regards,
Gabriel

On Feb 7, 7:48 am, Yasith Fernando <yas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there. You might want check out eloquent ruby. And you could always read
> the source of some popular matured Ruby projects like rails!
>
> IMHO you will need to really use your skills to sharpen them. So may be you
> should start doing a little hobby project to say.... solve some problem you
> have been facing or something to make your life easier.
>
> Have fun!

[Gabriel Lim]

Hey David,

Thanks for the invite, but I just saw the message, a few hours too
late haha. I'll definitely drop by for the next meeting! Looking
forward to meeting the community.

Regards,
Gabriel

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