Anybody know Ruby?

[murraybiscuit]

I'm looking to do a personal dev project and it looks like I may need to learn ruby.
Just setting the environment up at the mo. The language looks nice.
It's always helpful to know if there's somebody else out there who knows what they're doing...

 

[WiT8litZ]

I know the song: Ruby ruby ruby ruby!!! Aaaahhhhaaa haaa haaaaa hhaa haaaaaaaaa. That one?

 

[murraybiscuit]

This forum is going downhill

 

[Raithlin]

Ruby is supposed to be quick to pick up, and there are plenty of tuts out there. Which env/IDE you gonna use?

 

[murraybiscuit]

i hear netbeans is the best.
on mac most ruby devs use textmate.
i'm going to try get a workflow going in ubuntu with vim first as a lot of tutorials tend to use text editors rather than ide's.
i've downloaded netbeans in case that doesn't work.

 

[Ancalagon]

You dont need any special IDE for ruby, pretty much anything will work. I did some work in it a while back, might be able to help if I can remember things about it.

What I do remember is that its a fairly easy language to learn, kinda powerful for a scripting language. And its platform independent which is pretty cool.

 

[Raithlin]

Here's a Ruby Debug cheat sheet to get you started.
http://pivotallabs.com/users/chad/b...g-in-30-seconds-we-don-t-need-no-stinkin-gui-

...and that is pretty much all the help I can be...

 

[WiT8litZ]

All jokes aside, I'd also like to learn a bit of Ruby, looks to be making waves the last few years

 

[murraybiscuit]

i'm actually wanting to test out rhmobile as a framework for cross-platform mobile dev.
it looks interesting and could give a lot of flexibility into future, especially if mobile browsers start to allow more system calls.
it comes with an mvc framework, minified ruby code and sqlite db which gets embedded into an app and compiled to native code for iphone, blackberry, symbian and android.
it also uses html 5 instead of some custom widget and ui framework, which is good for me.
the bonus is that i could also write hosted ror apps if the dev doesn't require any system calls or custom libraries.

well, that's the theory...
i'll keep you posted.

 

[semaphore]

i do ruby dev, so if you need help drop me a pm

 

[murraybiscuit]

great, thanks flag boy

 

[semaphore]

great, thanks flag boy

The extent of your programming knowledge is rather astounding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)

 

[murraybiscuit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

 

[midrange]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lol