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RubyMonk - ruby lessons right in your browser

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Re: RubyMonk - ruby lessons right in your browser

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I'm really tired of seeing Ruby tutourials online. Teaching someone Ruby doesn't teach them the first thing about getting set up with a functioning website where they can put that code to practice.

Are you thinking of Ruby on Rails? Ruby Monk teaches Ruby, not Rails.

Re: RubyMonk - ruby lessons right in your browser

#29

Really nice. Can anyone comment on the architecture/stack used to create this, esp. with regard to the front end?

Sure - the front end is basically a Rails based custom CMS that allows us to write content in 'RubyMonk flavoured' HAML.

This is backed by servers that are running a bunch of eval loops using the Secure gem. See https://github.com/c42/secure if you're interested in the SandBoxing.

Re: RubyMonk - ruby lessons right in your browser

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post #19

I liked this, but found it hard to retain my interest after the first lessons until I found the 'problems' section. I tend to learn way better when actively working on a problem and having to go look things up and learn them to advance, so I look forward to seeing more problems here.

Noted, and thank you for the feedback. Please do let us know if there's any other feedback you have - you can email us at rubymonk@c42.in.

We'll be working on smoothing out the cross references to exercises, so problems will tell you exactly what exercises you need to read up on so you can complete them.

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