Damian Brady’s Blog

I’ve been trying to get into Ruby on Rails so I’ve been looking for good tutorials and introductions to the ruby language and the whole RoR framework. I’ve found a few, and I think I’m getting a decent grasp on it now.

One I’m reading why’s (poignant) guide to ruby and it’s seriously like getting great training from a mental patient. The tutorial bits and examples are great, but there’s a ton of insanity thrown in.

Take this quote for example:

Back, back, way back before speedboats, I owned a prize race horse who took a stumble on the track. She did ten front flips and crashed into a guy who was carrying a full jar of mayonnaisse. We had blood and mayonnaisse [sic] up and down the track. Needless to say, she was a disaster.

Wow. And this kind of stuff is scattered throughout. The example immediately after this little story demonstrates methods by showing an example that catches a falling star and uses a rachet to connect it to a captive monkey to make a “starmonkey”.

Well worth a read. You’ll actually probably accidentally learn Ruby too.

Damo

Obviously I post very rarely. It’s been a long time since my last one.

So, in an effort to actually make this something that gets updated, I’m changing the way I’m going to do it. I’m not going to wait until I have an essay to write, because it’s clear that doesn’t work. Instead, I’m going to write short posts.

This is the first one. Hope you enjoyed it. Read it again if you like.

Damo