Ask HN: Favorite Ruby and Ruby on Rails resources

14 points by oziumjinx 15 years ago | 10 comments

Im just getting started on learning Ruby on Rails and was wondering if HNers had some good resource to look at. Not looking for articles specifically, just resources that aggregate news, links, tutorials, etc.

I guess I'm looking for an HN or Digg for RoR.

petercooper 15 years ago |

Perhaps I'm biased as I run several Ruby sites but http://www.rubyflow.com/ is probably the closest to what you want. It's a community driven Ruby and Rails link site. Anyone can post there but I "curate" it (delete spam, edit descriptions if they're weird).

I also run http://rubyweekly.com/ which is a weekly Ruby e-mail newsletter.

I'm also co-host of http://rubyshow.com/ which is a weekly Ruby news podcast (and covers much the same stuff as the newsletter). There's also http://ruby5.envylabs.com/ (which I'm not involved with) if you prefer shorter and sweet news coverage in podcast form.

http://planetrubyonrails.com/ is a cool "planet" site if you want a roundup of blog posts though it's not as up to date with sources as it used to be but is the best planet site nonetheless. http://rubycorner.com/ has more links but doesn't show the items inline.

Last but not least, http://reddit.com/r/ruby is a Ruby subreddit and has a reasonable selection of stuff. Including, often, stuff not on the other sites (but the same goes the other way too, of course).

oziumjinx 15 years ago | |

wonderful. thank you!

ski2mi 15 years ago |

For fantastic free weekly video tutorials you must check out Ryan Bates' http://Railscasts.com. Each one is typically on a new topic, (although there have been "mini-series") each exploring some new feature, technique or add-on.

If you need a quick-start on deploying one of the many gems out there, there's a good chance Ryan has you covered.

clyfe 15 years ago |

http://twitter.com/#!/ruby_news

http://ruby-toolbox.com/

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

http://railsforzombies.org/

http://teachmetocode.com/

nolite 15 years ago |

http://www.learnivore.com/ - great screencast agregation

oziumjinx 15 years ago | |

Much appreciated. I'm working my way through Michael Hartl's railstutorial.org video series while also reading Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby.

johnnytee 15 years ago |

I'm just learning Rails as well and I found http://railsforzombies.org/ and http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ to be great resources.

riskish 15 years ago | |

I will second railsforzombies.org, I really liked that one.

I would also recommend tryruby.org for a quick, interactive primer on the syntax.

In addition, #RubyOnRails is very active on freenode, so you can always come and ask questions.

pstinnett 15 years ago |

One of my favorite Rails resources has been http://everydayrails.com/

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but it has some great articles.

newtp 15 years ago |

anyone use the lynda.com videos? How was it?