Ruby cookbook
by Lucas Carlson · first published 2006
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Very solid approach. As an incoming Fall '12 DBC student, I've found Ruby Koans (http://rubykoans.com/) and Ruby Cookbook (http://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-Cookbooks-OReilly-Lucas-Carls...) to be incredibly helpful in grounding and adding more context to my Rails Tutorial experience.
on “Want to learn Rails? Start here.” ↗…years ago, in the throes of dealing with his own YC rejection. Take a look at his credits at http://rufy.com/ and I think it's clear he's an accomplished developer, author of multiple Ruby gems and the Ruby Cookbook (O'Reilly, July 2006). I don't know Lucas, so I can't speak from experience, but anyone with his hacking credits (and a physics degree from Reed College to boot) has to fall into the "smart and gets…
on “Y Combinator's 2005 Summer Founders Program: A Complete Dud” ↗…on the app. Learning resources: https://careerfoundry.com https://www.railstutorial.org/book https://learnrubythehardway.org/book/ Browsing GitHub Books I've bought: O'Reilly Ruby Cookbook The Well-Grounded Rubyist Beginning Ruby From Novice to Professional Third Edition Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer If you look through the source code I would…
on “My first Rack app” ↗…read source of libraries or Rails (except occasionally), so maybe _somewhere_ someone does this. I've read a few Ruby books over the years and never seen this illustrated as a thing to do, even in the Ruby Cookbook book. (added) To be fair, one thing I have seen which is confusing to people new to programming and applies in Ruby, is if you define a constant EMPTY = [] elsewhere, and you use EMPTY as your default…
on “Guido was right, there should be no lambda in Python (2018)” ↗