Hi there,
I’m about 2 weeks into my learning attempt at Ruby (1.8.6 is what I’ve
cut my teeth on).
Can someone give me a rational assessment of the differences between
the two language versions, and which one I should continue to pursue?
I’m mainly using Ruby with Rails to make basic webapps for my own
edification.
Thanks!
Alex
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:14 PM, yuckysocks [email protected]
wrote:
Thanks!
Alex
Very short answer:
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Pozdrawiam
Rados³aw Bu³at
http://radarek.jogger.pl - mój blog
So since these changes have been made, will us noobs be hurting
ourselves
starting off learning 1.8.6? Books to learn from are teaching from 1.8.
thanks
2009/2/3 Radosław Bułat [email protected]
Hi –
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Zayd A. wrote:
So since these changes have been made, will us noobs be hurting ourselves
starting off learning 1.8.6? Books to learn from are teaching from 1.8.
If you can wait about 1.5 months or so you can read “The Well-Grounded
Rubyist” (already available in early-access PDF), which is about
1.9.1. See The Well-Grounded Rubyist. Meanwhile there’s a ton of
stuff you can learn in 1.8.6 that hasn’t changed, or where the changes
are likely to make more sense to you anyway (like “abc”[0] being “a”
rather than 97).
See also my recent blog posts on 1.8/1.9:
http://dablog.rubypal.com/2009/1/14/10-things-to-be-aware-of-in-moving-to-ruby-1-9
http://dablog.rubypal.com/2009/1/16/son-of-10-things-to-be-aware-of-in-ruby-1-9
David
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Coming in 2009: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (The Well-Grounded Rubyist)
http://www.wishsight.com => Independent, social wishlist management!
Not all books. Take a look at Programming 1.9 by Pragmatic Programmers
(http://preview.tinyurl.com/7xfvk7). They constantly update their PDF
books to keep in step with the latest changes to Ruby.
Good luck.
2009/2/3 Zayd A. [email protected]
On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Zayd A. wrote:
So since these changes have been made, will us noobs be hurting
ourselves starting off learning 1.8.6? Books to learn from are
teaching from 1.8.
No, you will be fine. It’s not a super tough transition when you are
ready.
James Edward G. II
Hey Alex,
How is your learning process going? I’m currently learning Ruby also. I
picked up “Beginning Ruby” by Peter C.(Excellent read), and “Design
Patterns In Ruby”. What kind of projects are you creating and practicing
to
sharpen your skills? I need some simple projects to start creating. Do
you
have any suggestions?
Thanks
Zayd
Thanks Guys. So in a short list, what should be the features to stay
away
from in 1.8, I just purchased “Beginning Ruby” by Peter C., I really
would hate to struggle trying to get something then find out its no
longer
needed or being used in 1.9 lol.
Thanks
2009/2/3 Jonathon B. [email protected]
Hi,
On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Zayd A. wrote:
Books to learn from are teaching from 1.8.
In addition to those already mentioned in this thread, Flanagan’s The
Ruby P.ming Language (O’Reilly) is a great book in general and
touched on Ruby 1.9 even though it was published over a year ago. It’s
not completely up to date with 1.9.1, but covers many of the
conceptual changes.
Stephen
WHEW!! 
okay cool
Thanks
On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Zayd A. wrote:
I need some simple projects to start creating. Do you have any
suggestions?
You might try some of the easier questions from Ruby Q.:
The problems a bunch of people solved are generally the easiest. For
example, have a look at:
and:
James Edward G. II
James G. wrote:
On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Zayd A. wrote:
I need some simple projects to start creating. Do you have any
suggestions?You might try some of the easier questions from Ruby Q.:
The problems a bunch of people solved are generally the easiest. For
example, have a look at:and:
James Edward G. II
Thanks James I will try some of the easier ones 
Keep going with 1.8. There’s more in 1.9 and strings are unicode.
Blog: http://random8.zenunit.com/
Learn rails: http://sensei.zenunit.com/
On 04/02/2009, at 4:14 AM, yuckysocks [email protected]
2009/2/3 Zayd A. [email protected]:
So since these changes have been made, will us noobs be hurting ourselves
starting off learning 1.8.6? Books to learn from are teaching from 1.8.
I think things are looking up for Ruby 1.9 books, actually. Here’s
the path I’d recommend (with some obvious bias)
= To grasp the fundamentals
“The Well Grounded Rubyist” [0]
= To understand the details
“Programming Ruby 1.9” [1] and/or “The Ruby P.ming Language” [2]
= To use Ruby effectively
“Ruby Best Practices” [3]
This will give you a very well rounded experience, and once you
understand Ruby 1.9, quite a bit of your knowledge will still transfer
smoothly back to 1.8.
Most of these books are in Beta right now, all except [2], but if you
pick them up know you will help us catch problems before we go to
print, improving the situation for those taking the plunge directly
into Ruby 1.9.
-greg
[0] The Well-Grounded Rubyist
[1] Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers
[2] The Ruby Programming Language [Book]
[3] http://rubybestpractices.com
Thanks Guys!!
On Feb 3, 7:12 pm, Zayd A. [email protected] wrote:
Thanks Guys. So in a short list, what should be the features to stay away
from in 1.8, I just purchased “Beginning Ruby” by Peter C., I really
would hate to struggle trying to get something then find out its no longer
needed or being used in 1.9 lol.
I’d definitly put the whole string encoding: that’s changed pretty
much completely. And there are a few more things within the string
class but they are pretty minor. Also there’s some trickery about
variables scopes in 1.8 that has been “fixed” in 1.9.1.
But as others said for most people the transition from 1.8 to 1.9
should be pretty painless (transitioning the actual codes may be
another matter, I don’t know). And if you are stuck at any point, feel
free to send a message to this list and I am sure you’ll get tons of
advices plus people will warn you if that’s something that’s been
changed in 1.9.
So in the end, enjoy learning 1.8: 1.9 is still pretty similar!
Diego
On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:14:42 -0800, yuckysocks wrote:
Thanks!
Alex
AFAIK, Rails isn’t available for 1.9 yet, and much of the good stuff in
the Ruby 1.9 APIs is actually inspired by and taken from Rails. Stick
with 1.8 for now. Learning the new stuff for 1.9 should be relatively
easy – I’ve been able to move some code I’ve written for 1.8, and run
it
on 1.9 without changes and all unit tests pass.
–Ken
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Ken B. [email protected] wrote:
AFAIK, Rails isn’t available for 1.9 yet, and much of the good stuff in
the Ruby 1.9 APIs is actually inspired by and taken from Rails.
I don’t think so. I can name only one thing (Symbol#to_proc) which was
popularized by rails (and even not invented by rails itself).
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2009/2/5 David A. Black [email protected]
I don’t think so. I can name only one thing (Symbol#to_proc) which was
popularized by rails (and even not invented by rails itself).There’s also #each_with_object.
No, it looks like this went from Ruby 1.9 TO Rails
http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/962-injecting-on-enumerable
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2009/2/3, yuckysocks [email protected]:
edification.
Thanks!
Alex
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