Best way to teach yourself Ruby? [closed]

Question

I have a decent amount of web development and programming experience with C, C++ and several markup languages. In order to expand my knowledge I've decided to learn Ruby and I'm wondering what you guys recommend as being the best way to teach it to yourself. I took a quick browse through the books available at Amazon but nothing immediately jumped out at me.

Thanks a lot in advance, I really appreciate it.

Answer 1

I've introduced a few guys to Ruby in the last couple of weeks, here are some of the things I have recommended that they've liked a lot:

• Learn to Program
  • More for the inexperienced programmer, though. So in this case it's not a fit.
• Try Ruby
  • Try Ruby in your browser! General introduction.
• Ruby Koans
  • Make tests pass. Great way to learn the Ruby syntax.
• Ruby Warrior
  • Another fun way like Ruby Koans to learn Ruby.

I also recommended always having The Ruby Programming Language and/or Read Ruby 1.9 at their side as reference.

Once you got the basic syntax covered, dive into some Web fun with something simple like Sinatra. After all, the best way to learn a language is to start using it.