You could end up learning Ruby as an unintentional byproduct of enjoying this book

Subway · 05-28-2007, 05:06 AM

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

Damn funny book, even if you dont want to learn Ruby, the book is still so much fun ... you really could learn Ruby as an unintentional byproduct of reading it for pure enjoyment, now how does that sound?

Fredi

kevin_smithers · 05-28-2007, 05:19 AM

I hate RoR

I got it installed on my server but can't get the bloody thing to work!!

adit_ya_sharma · 05-28-2007, 07:17 AM

Nice explanation, would give it a full read when free, Like the 'variable' example

MagnusVS · 05-28-2007, 12:31 PM

Isn't it free?

robbmcaulay · 05-28-2007, 01:13 PM

When he's free...

atRax · 05-28-2007, 01:20 PM

I dug through some of why the lucky stiff's other more concise documents; and i just can't handle his wacky nonsense when i'm actually trying to learn the language. it's like my brain is hard-wired to look for familiar concepts when i'm learning a new language, and his wackyness gets in the way.

with that said, just reading the poignant guide for fun (as opposed to learn the language) is ok for me, i guess, in small doses.

lefteyewilly · 05-28-2007, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atRax

I dug through some of why the lucky stiff's other more concise documents; and i just can't handle his wacky nonsense when i'm actually trying to learn the language. it's like my brain is hard-wired to look for familiar concepts when i'm learning a new language, and his wackyness gets in the way.

with that said, just reading the poignant guide for fun (as opposed to learn the language) is ok for me, i guess, in small doses.

agreed. i enjoyed the first few pages, but then i got lost in all the off topic one sided conversations with himself. I have no clue about RoR, and i started to understand it a bit...but it seemed to be lacking the real world examples i'm used to.

In his defense, i did get a couple chuckles out of the wackyness.

adit_ya_sharma · 05-28-2007, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MagnusVS

Isn't it free?

:|

Subway · 05-28-2007, 03:00 PM

Free PDF: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/whys-p...de-to-ruby.pdf

Taken from his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why's_(poignant)_Guide_to_Ruby

And in case you missed it, the soundtrack for this book ... yeah, really: http://poignantguide.net/sdtrk

Fredi

Subway · 05-28-2007, 03:03 PM

Oh and nearly forgot, some vids he made:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Du_RTMmofWM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ng95M-cRb44
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mXZ_htL1rOI

Fredi

ihoss.com · 05-28-2007, 05:41 PM

Ruby is nothing compared to LOLCODE, which is even easier to read!

Aria · 05-28-2007, 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Subway

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

Damn funny book, even if you dont want to learn Ruby, the book is still so much fun ... you really could learn Ruby as an unintentional byproduct of reading it for pure enjoyment, now how does that sound?

Fredi

Like the illustrations -wish I had time to play & geek out

I 'll forward this to our IT guys though.

a

yasunobu13 · 05-28-2007, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ihoss.com

Ruby is nothing compared to LOLCODE, which is even easier to read!

Excellent! I was reading http://icanhascheezburger.com/ all day today too.

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Subway Information Architect Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Switzerland Posts: 4,779	Free PDF: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/whys-p...de-to-ruby.pdf Taken from his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why's_(poignant)_Guide_to_Ruby And in case you missed it, the soundtrack for this book ... yeah, really: http://poignantguide.net/sdtrk Fredi __________________ Mind Share Projects [ <- my latest projects ] [ my splash page -> ] Fredi Bach OS X Code (r,s) [ my Mac, web 2.0 and programming blog ] Not A Blog [ my personal weblog ] jMe Feed Aggregator [ my latest most famous project ] Web Command Line [ use the web like a real geek ]

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Subway Information Architect Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Switzerland Posts: 4,779	Oh and nearly forgot, some vids he made: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Du_RTMmofWM http://youtube.com/watch?v=ng95M-cRb44 http://youtube.com/watch?v=mXZ_htL1rOI Fredi __________________ Mind Share Projects [ <- my latest projects ] [ my splash page -> ] Fredi Bach OS X Code (r,s) [ my Mac, web 2.0 and programming blog ] Not A Blog [ my personal weblog ] jMe Feed Aggregator [ my latest most famous project ] Web Command Line [ use the web like a real geek ]

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