Learn More About Ruby and Rails by Carola Boettcher

Carola's presentation on where to find resources for continued learning was a great close out to our workshop. Check it out for all of your Ruby and Rails link love.

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1. Learn more ruby and rails
2. You want to learn more ruby and rails Here are some resources first ruby then rails
3. tryruby.org Learn the basics of ruby in your browser You get an idea about what ruby is and how it works Great to get started – it just takes 15 minutes.
5. rubymonk.com Free, interactive tutorials to help you discover Ruby idioms, in your browser! Beginner, Intermediate 
 and Advanced courses
7. rubykoans.com “The goal is to learn the Ruby language, syntax, structure, and some common functions and libraries.” !TestDrivenDevelopment!
9. rubykoans.com 1. Download the files 2. Make the test pass 3. Run $ ruby path_to_enlightenment
10. testfirst.org TDD ruby (and JavaScript) works similar to rubykoans, but: There are working tests and you have to create the code files by yourself
11. Free Ebooks Learn ruby the hard way [1] Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby [2] Ruby User Guide [3] Beginning Ruby [4]
12. rubywarrior https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior/ Code game in ruby -> beginner and advanced mode Fix the downloaded files and make the “Terminal”-warrior
13. rubywarrior like a text-based adventure in the terminal README
15. railsforzombies.org Free Rails course powered by code school For Rails Beginners!
16. Railstutorial http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ Completely Free online available Build a Twitter-like application
17. railscasts.com screencasts for ruby on rails some for free helpful for solving concrete problems or learn something new
18. Google