# Learning ruby from you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 7, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-ruby-from-you/111409 "2007-08-07T03:00:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonsaid)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-ruby-from-you/111409/1 "2007-08-07T03:00:44Z")
I’ve got an impressively spotty understanding of ruby, linux, programming in general, and math/logic, but have a project or two in mind that are just taking too long for me to make headway with on my own. I would like to buy some lessons via AIM/email paid with paypal to use ruby to actualize some of these things and help me learn ruby in the process. healthcare doesn’t pay like flipping burgers, surprisingly, so I can’t offer any kind of IT going rate. this situation would be ideal for someone(s) gearing up for teaching, or learning hobbyists like myself (teaching is maybe the best way to learn!), or for someone wanting to learn the basics of modern hebrew, which is another of my autodidactic hack-of-all-trades interests, and probably my most powerful area (about 3 years of on-and-off learning)… this last would be the most ideal trade, for me (see above re: $). also I’m just fun to talk to. projects abstractly: making (in general) and utilizing fonts within ruby, web automation, making a file-sharing AIM bot, nanobrews, specifics after talking some, aim/yahoo=awhilewhileaway thank you! ---
**Author:** ![simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonsaid)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 5:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-ruby-from-you/111409/2 "2007-08-07T05:48:54Z")
Simon S. wrote: > hebrew, which is another of my autodidactic hack-of-all-trades > interests, and probably my most powerful area (about 3 years of > on-and-off learning)… this last would be the most ideal trade, for me > (see above re: $). also I’m just fun to talk to. > > projects abstractly: making (in general) and utilizing fonts within ruby, web > automation, making a file-sharing AIM bot, nanobrews, specifics after > talking some, aim/yahoo=awhilewhileaway thank you! Getting paid help might be hard, because that requires commitment. (You might get even get a better response if you didn’t offer to pay!) But this list is excellent for questions. If you ask them well, you are very likely to get useful responses quickly. If you get no offers from potential tutors, maybe you should just start your projects. I have always found that’s the best way to learn (besides teaching, like you mentioned). Ask for help on this list with something more specific when it comes up. You can ask for help often. And if your goals turn out to be too much, you will still learn. You should also look for a Ruby users group and a Linux users group in your area. There you can be around people that will have lots of good input. You can bounce your ideas off this list, too (the Ruby ones, at least), but face to face is often nicer if you can get it. Good luck, Dan ---
**Author:** ![simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonsaid)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-ruby-from-you/111409/3 "2007-08-07T21:11:51Z")
Hello, I won’t be available in the next two weeks because of boot camp, but later I’d be glad to. I’m a native hebrew speaker, btw. You might want to ask questions in Hebrew on the Israel.rb mailing list, [http://groups.google.com/group/israelrb](http://groups.google.com/group/israelrb) . Also check out my project [http://RubyMentor.rubyforge.org](http://RubyMentor.rubyforge.org) Aur ---
**Author:** ![simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonsaid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 2:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-ruby-from-you/111409/4 "2007-08-08T02:51:32Z")
I will definitely start posting my questions here! thanks! I’ve started going through the pragmatic programmer’s guide and it’s great ---
**Author:** ![simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonsaid)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 8:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-ruby-from-you/111409/5 "2007-08-07T08:41:07Z")
On 8/7/07, Dan Z. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > way to learn!), or for someone wanting to learn the basics of modern > > Getting paid help might be hard, because that requires commitment. (You > might get even get a better response if you didn’t offer to pay!) But > this list is excellent for questions. If you ask them well, you are very > likely to get useful responses quickly. > Which is more, by following Dan’s advice invest (part of) the saved > money into some good books, Programming Ruby II by the pragmatic > programmers would be my choice. > [https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby-2nd-edition/](http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html) > Discussing any problems you have with understanding this book on this > list will be productive, believe me, that has been done before :). Cheers and yes welcome to the WWoR (Wonderful World of Ruby) Robert ---
**Author:** ![simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonsaid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-ruby-from-you/111409/6 "2007-08-08T16:43:43Z")
SonOfLilit wrote: > Hello, > > I won’t be available in the next two weeks because of boot camp, but > later I’d be glad to. > > I’m a native hebrew speaker, btw. My Ruby is much better than my Hebrew so if anyone can find me an open source project that utilizes a Ruby DSL approach to churning out Hebrew, it would be much appreciated. Barring that, I will settle for Yedish ilan ---
**Author:** ![simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonsaid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-ruby-from-you/111409/7 "2007-08-08T20:20:07Z")
SonOfLilit wrote: > What do you mean by that? How, for example, would an analogue for > English work? > > Aur Aur, I was just joking around 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonsaid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-ruby-from-you/111409/8 "2007-08-08T16:58:45Z")
On 8/8/07, Ilan B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > My Ruby is much better than my Hebrew so if anyone can find me an open > source project that utilizes a Ruby DSL approach to churning out Hebrew, > it would be much appreciated. Barring that, I will settle for Yedish > > ilan What do you mean by that? How, for example, would an analogue for English work? Aur ---
**Author:** ![simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@simonsaid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonsaid)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/learning-ruby-from-you/111409/9 "2007-09-25T23:03:36Z")
Ilan B. wrote: > I was just joking around 🙂 > You joke yet [http://rubyforge.org/projects/hebruby/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/hebruby/) B