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Learning Ruby

Does anyone know of any resources (besides the Hackety Hack program and the official site) that can help me learn Ruby?

That and ASP are my biggest must-learn languages. I've already sort of got to grips with ASP though (VB ftw), but due to IIS being silly I can't actually test anything I've done :P

In other news, are you using the dodosmail form script? If so, did you know that not only is it susceptible to header injection (sending spam through the script to other people), but it is also vulnerable to remote file inclusion (which will get your site hacked, in other words). I've had loads of errors from bots looking to hack me through that script, urgh.
Switch to NL-PHPMail! ;)

Oh look, I've just noticed the date (in dd-mm-yy format) is 09/08/07. Heheheh.

Comments (14)

  1. Can I be the first to suggest the ROR homepage? I don't know what it is without googling it, but it's gotta be the ROR equivalent to php.net, right?

    Yay for 9/8/7. That's actually my boss' birthday...

    Rachael's Gravatar Rachael on 10/08/2007 at 14:10

  2. I've already looked at the official site (I said so in my post :P ) but it's not at all like php.net. No online manuals I've ever used is as good as that one.

    Amelie's Gravatar Amelie on 10/08/2007 at 14:16

  3. Seemingly useful sites after googling "useful ruby on rails"

    [Snipped by Amelie!]

    Hope this helps! Should give you some reading over the weekend...

    Rachael's Gravatar Rachael on 10/08/2007 at 18:45

  4. Thanks - I did Google around but I didn't find much of interest.

    (I removed the links from your post since Akismet thought you were spam while they were there :P )

    Amelie's Gravatar Amelie on 10/08/2007 at 19:25

  5. Oi, I've got a few I've had bookmarked for awhile:
    http://www.planetrubyonrails.com/
    http://www.3till7.net/category/techy/programming-techy/ (Sarah's site is really perfect for this, because she's got a little bit of everything to help you out with; I reference it occasionally.)

    Jordan's Gravatar Jordan on 10/08/2007 at 20:15

  6. Oh yeah, I know Sarah's all about teh r00bz. :P

    Amelie's Gravatar Amelie on 10/08/2007 at 20:27

  7. *stabs VB to death* C# ftw! XD
    I found ASP.NET incredibly easy to learn (granted I am using Visual Studio for developing), took me about a week, and now I'm doing that at work.

    As for Ruby, I'm sure there are sites with Learn Ruby in a week/month etc. I always found those the easiest. heh by my list consist of PHP and Perl right now :P, but I'm so lazy.

    Vera's Gravatar Vera on 12/08/2007 at 12:17

  8. @Amelie - I thought I might show up as spam... I didn't want to flood you with fifteen comments though... Did you remember to look at the links before deleting them? =p

    Rachael's Gravatar Rachael on 13/08/2007 at 8:55

  9. I think if you search for something along the lines of Ruby Blog or Build a blog using Ruby or something you should find a really good video tutorial. That's how I learned the basics of Ruby. I learned Ruby in about an hour (I know a lot of other very similar languages though). I suspect it would take most people about a week to learn the basics.

    Kimmie's Gravatar Kimmie on 15/08/2007 at 18:48

  10. LOLZ. I learned Ruby in 3 minutes because I'm superior to you all.

    Jem's Gravatar Jem on 15/08/2007 at 21:15

  11. You sure are Jem. :P

    Louise's Gravatar Louise on 16/08/2007 at 6:57

  12. I just noticed.. you spelled susceptible wrong. :P

    Jem's Gravatar Jem on 16/08/2007 at 11:41

  13. I did? I checked it though :|

    *Checks again* Oh, so I did. *Changes*

    Amelie's Gravatar Amelie on 16/08/2007 at 11:43

  14. @Jem - three minutes? Not two? Three minutes is about how long it took me to learn the saxophone...

    How's the ruby-learning coming along, Amelie?

    Rachael's Gravatar Rachael on 16/08/2007 at 19:23

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