TryRuby VS isomorfeus-project

I want to recommend an interactive resource to someone new to programming.

Something like https://try.ruby-lang.org/, but for the terminal.

Most of the top hits on Google either seem to also dive into unnecessary history, scripting/Git, or are not interactive.

Ideas?

My advice is to spend half an hour (maybe split in 2 sessions) on try-ruby Nothing to download, no install, all in your browser. See if you like it and move on accordingly.

Additionally, two recommended books for mastering Ruby are “Eloquent Ruby” by Russ Olsen and “Ruby Programming for Beginners: An Introduction to Learning Ruby Programming with Tutorials and Hands-On Examples” by Nathan Metzler. Furthermore, aside from courses and books, other online resources are available for learning Ruby, such as Tutorialspoint and try.ruby-lang.org.

Try https://try.ruby-lang.org/ for half an hour to see if you get the hang of it.

Opal is used on https://try.ruby-lang.org/ (it is a static website, but the entire website is Ruby, no JavaScript: https://github.com/ruby/TryRuby/ )

ChatGPT can’t write working code very well. If all this seems beyond you, you might want to start with some Ruby fundamentals first. Try Ruby is a good starting point.

Like Ruby WASI, it allows you to run Ruby in a web browser, but it takes a different approach - it is, like JRuby, a complete reimplementation of Ruby. Unlike Ruby WASI, you don't have to ship the entire Ruby compiler - you just ship your code compiled to JavaScript along with (possibly) minimal Ruby runtime. You can compare and contrast both on a recently updated TryRuby website (which itself - is a 100% Ruby frontend application compiled with Opal!).

Opal itself is quite low level. It just gives you a compiler and Ruby runtime. There exist a couple of frameworks using Opal: two most developed are Hyperstack (deeply integrates Rails, Opal and React) and Isomorfeus (integrates Roda, Opal and Preact)