give me some resources to learn ruby.

Question

i am familiar with PHP and JSP. i am interested in learning ruby i seek some learning materials/resouces/books to learn ruby. it would be better if the material/Books/Resource compares Ruby with PHP or JSP. i prefer comparative learning. and also suggest some IDE for ruby. Thank in advance.

Answer 1

Try this boook:

rails-for-php-developers

a here is a good IDE for ruby NetBeans IDE

Petr

Answer 2

For dead-tree-edition books, I recommend the Pragmatic Programmer series for learning both Ruby & Rails. Online, the excellent reference docs at http://rubyonrails.org/documentation are my first go-to resource.

Answer 3

Use VIM & Pickaxe.

Answer 4

I've never come across a book that bridges PHP to Ruby, sorry.

I am a Ruby beginner, and here is what I have bookmarked.

Interactive, try now:
http://tryruby.org/

Free resources:

• http://ruby-doc.org/
• http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/index.html
• http://www-users.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/
• http://www.visibleworkings.com/little-ruby/
• http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
• http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Little-Book-Of-Ruby
• http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/

I'm not a fan of Why's Poignant Guide - I think the book's (attempts at) humour are distracting. He knows his stuff however. It might be to your liking, so:

• http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

Recommended not-free book for beginner:

• http://www.amazon.com/Well-Grounded-Rubyist-David-Black/dp/1933988657/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Programming challenges for practice:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24692/where-can-you-find-funeducational-programming-challenges
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/87657/what-are-some-good-programming-challenge-websites

I use SciTE for my Ruby interaction. It comes with the Ruby installer and does everything I need.