Learn Ruby

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Post by blacktm » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 3:09 PM UTC

Learn Ruby
kickstarter.com

Re: Learn Ruby

#2

Post by film42 » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 3:52 PM UTC

This is great, but there are already many sites that teach ruby through clean slides, animations and gamification. Most notably (with respect to ruby) is code school.

I'm all for more resources, but I don't see how this is filling a market gap.

Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by andreiursan » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 3:56 PM UTC

Around minute 1:01, in the kickstarter video, he says that ruby is used by facebook o_O. I don't think that it is, is it?

Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 4:03 PM UTC

andreiursan wrote: post #3

Around minute 1:01, in the kickstarter video, he says that ruby is used by facebook o_O. I don't think that it is, is it?

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Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by Stranger2013 » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 4:05 PM UTC

film42 wrote: post #2

This is great, but there are already many sites that teach ruby through clean slides, animations and gamification. Most notably (with respect to ruby) is code school. I'm all for more resources, but I don't see how this is filling a market gap.

Ruby is a part of hipster culture. You can't just say "There is enough hipster bands out there, we don't need more" can you?

Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by melling » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

There are lots of places to learn Ruby. At this point, you could Google just about any question that you had.

How about something more ambitious? Anyone want to crowd fund a small satellite or lunar rover for the Google Lunar Prize?

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/

Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by jcoder » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

andreiursan wrote: post #3

Around minute 1:01, in the kickstarter video, he says that ruby is used by facebook o_O. I don't think that it is, is it?

I'm sure it is somewhere. Lots of software behind Facebook.

Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by alpb » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 4:11 PM UTC

I wouldn't pay $25 for this Kickstarter project.

Codeacademy and Udemy has Ruby classes to grasp enough knowledge and cost less than this.

Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by knowtheory » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 4:14 PM UTC

andreiursan wrote: post #3

Around minute 1:01, in the kickstarter video, he says that ruby is used by facebook o_O. I don't think that it is, is it?

Remember that both Chef and Puppet are written in Ruby. Ruby is in a lot of things by virtue of the fact that it's so prevalent in the DevOps world.

Re: Learn Ruby

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Post by locofacetwice » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 4:24 PM UTC

9 times out of 10 people choose to learn Ruby for only one purpose - Ruby On Rails. This tutorial will not be too good for 9 out of 10 people.