What's the best tutorial to start learning Ruby?

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What is the best way to learn Ruby?

There's tutorials on Rails but it's hard to find good on-line tutorials for Ruby.

What's your favorite one?

Answer 1

Ruby in twenty Minutes, try the interactive console tutorial also.

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/

Answer 2

I'm a fan of http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ but I don't do a lot of ruby coding, so take that with a grain of salt.

Answer 3

There's nothing better to start than Try Ruby! (in your browser) you don't even need to install it to start learning it, in my opinion the site is an amazing concept

Answer 4

Why's (Poignant) Guide To Ruby of course!

Answer 5

I second Egg's proposal of Ruby in Twenty Minutes. It's a great overview, even for people who already know the language. For a bit more depth, Programming Ruby is online in it's entirety. Also, here's a quick reference guide that's quite helpful for constructs and syntax. And the API documentation is indispensible once you get rolling.

Answer 6

Why's Poignant Guide was my favorite as well. Programming Ruby is pretty good, and I bought a copy of The Ruby Way after I had a grasp on the language. Although the relevance of a lot of the scripts in that book has faded, it was an instrumental resource in learning how to do things in an idiomatic Ruby fashion, rather than simply repeating algorithms from other, more verbose and cluttered languages in Ruby. If you're familiar with the term pythonic, you'll know what I mean.

Answer 7

My favourites are:

• Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book (online)
• Programming Ruby (1.9) (book)
• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (online)
• Try Ruby in your browser (interactive)