# Now what

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/now-what/93397>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 1, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/now-what/93397 "2006-04-01T18:08:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/now-what/93397/1 "2006-04-01T18:08:35Z")

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I’ve gotten through the Programming Ruby book and I have good idea of  
how Ruby works; but I am stuck with what to do next. I mean, I know I  
have to learn Ruby before I get into Rails (i.e. Ruby is the engine of  
the car and Rails is the body of the car), but I have no idea of what to  
do with Ruby (as in by it self without Rails).

So is there anything I can do with Ruby on the web without knowing a lot  
about Rails?

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**Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/now-what/93397/2 "2006-04-01T18:15:45Z")

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[http://www.coolnamehere.com/geekery/ruby/web/cgi.html](http://www.coolnamehere.com/geekery/ruby/web/cgi.html)  
[http://www.rubycentral.com/book/web.html](http://www.rubycentral.com/book/web.html)  
etc

you can also learn to use databases with ruby, without rails…  
see a recent post on that

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**Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/now-what/93397/3 "2006-04-01T18:27:58Z")

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On Apr 1, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Allen D. wrote:

> So is there anything I can do with Ruby on the web without knowing  
> a lot  
> about Rails?

[http://rubyquiz.com/](http://rubyquiz.com/)

–Steve

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**Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/now-what/93397/4 "2006-04-01T18:40:21Z")

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If you love playing around with numbers and logic, join

> **[mathschallenge.net](https://mathschallenge.net/)**
>
> A website dedicated to the puzzling world of mathematics.

You get points, in the ranking system, everytime you solve a problem.  
You’re  
supposed to solve the problems by writing programs that will do the work  
for  
you of cause 🙂

2006/4/1, Stephen W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/now-what/93397/5 "2006-04-02T13:55:17Z")

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Actually you’re probably more than ready to test out Rails. Check out  
Agile Web D. with Rails – they walk you through examples that  
do not require deep understanding of Ruby. For that matter, nothing  
I’ve seen in Rails requires a super-deep understanding of Ruby to grasp.

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**Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/now-what/93397/6 "2006-04-01T18:55:56Z")

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Funnily enough, we are looking for ideas for good, short Ruby projects  
for  
Bitwise at the moment. We have an introductory Ruby tutorial online at  
the  
moment. We plan to wrap that up by the end of April. After that I want  
to  
run some occasional Ruby programming columns. I was thinking along the  
lines  
of doing some simple file/text processing projects (e.g. maybe some HTML  
search/replace tools for webmasters), some disk utilities (finding  
files,  
sorting by size across multiple directories?), maybe even a game (well,  
I’m  
an adventure game freak at heart).

But if you have any other ideas, please let me know.

# best wishes Huw C.

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