What type of simple applications you wrote while learning Ruby?

Ruby
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I am using NotePad++ on Windows 7 to write and learn Ruby. While
learning about Classes, I feel I can’t learn much using NotePad++ until
and unless I write a real GUI app’. using either wxRuby or fxRuby.

When you all started learning Ruby, what type of simple applications you
created and which editor you used?

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I doubt I’m saying anything controversial by stating that most people
who
know Ruby today probably got their start using Rails and that and even
higher percentage have never written a GUI application using the
language.

As for text editor, this discussion shows up about every week or two on
this
list and rails-talk. I’ll save you the suspense of waiting for an
answer:
there’s no right answer, and you should use whatever you feel helps you
to
get work done.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Rubyist R. <

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If that is the case, I assume I am on the right path by writing a sample
Rails application.

Chris K. wrote in post #1014908:

I doubt I’m saying anything controversial by stating that most people
who
know Ruby today probably got their start using Rails and that and even
higher percentage have never written a GUI application using the
language.

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On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Rubyist R. <
[email protected]> wrote:

If that is the case, I assume I am on the right path by writing a sample
Rails application.

I would agree here. The documentation and support on getting started
with
Rails is excellent, especially for beginners. You will find the most
example
code, and there are several excellent step by step tutorials.

For pure ruby learning, I would recommend simple automation scripts -
they
are small, get stuff done, and are useful to you immediately.

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On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 06:24:01PM +0900, Rubyist R. wrote:

I am using NotePad++ on Windows 7 to write and learn Ruby. While
learning about Classes, I feel I can’t learn much using NotePad++ until
and unless I write a real GUI app’. using either wxRuby or fxRuby.

When you all started learning Ruby, what type of simple applications you
created and which editor you used?

Actually, I get more mileage out of writing command line utilities when
learning a new language than trying to write GUI applications. With
command line utilities, I get to focus more on the language. With GUI
applications, I tend to spend all my time focusing on learning the
language’s interface to a GUI toolkit. Then again, I do almost
everything on BSD Unix systems, and occasionally Linux-based systems;
it’s not quite as convenient trying to write useful command line
applications on MS Windows. I guess Web development is probably your
best bet there.

As mentioned, use the editor that works best for you. I tend to use Vim
and/or nvi. As clicky GUI editors go, SciTE is pretty good, too. A lot
of Mac users swear by TextMate.

Good luck.

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On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Rubyist R.
[email protected] wrote:

If that is the case, I assume I am on the right path by writing a sample
Rails application.
Chris K. wrote in post #1014908:

I doubt I’m saying anything controversial by stating that most people
who
know Ruby today probably got their start using Rails and that and even
higher percentage have never written a GUI application using the
language.

I learned about the existence of Ruby reading about Rails, but I
thought I’d rather learn the language first.
In the end I haven’t written any Rails application. I started learning
through tutorials, and then Project Euler math problems. Then I
started writing little scripts that I needed, and then a turn-based
game framework, a couple sinatra applications, and several other
little things.

Editors I’ve used: Scite, vim, cream, redcar and lately sublime text 2.
Please note that I haven’t built any big project, so I just use text
editors and not full IDEs.

If you need to use Rails for something, then by all means, go ahead.
But if you want to learn the Ruby language first, I wouldn’t start
building rails applications, but other things.

Jesus.