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learn-ruby
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Being laid off in 2023-2024 as an early-career developer
More consistent learning. The job search also gave me a chance to get back to my Ruby/web development learning roadmap. I realized that at my last job, I wasn't consistently spending time improving my skills, outside of whatever I might (if I was lucky) be learning in work projects. It's just hard to fight against the pressure of the day-to-day work. Here are some approaches that I'll try this time around: Disregard immediate applicability and learn something I'm interested in for the sake of expanding my mind. Right now that's learning functional programming. Learn actively, whether by contributing to Exercism's Ruby track, building a collection of Ruby code katas, or maybe even creating a text-based game.
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Desperately need direction!
Beyond these basics, I've put together a list of my favorite Ruby/Rails learning resources.
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Learning Git: my favorite resources
I made the Git list by (1) scouring the Web for recommended resources, then (2) trying out each one to see if it would be worth going through to the end. In case you're curious about which resources didn't make the cut, here's the commit where they are removed.
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Learning Ruby: a retrospective
As a guide to my reflections today, I'll use my "Learning Ruby" roadmap, which originally arose out of the chaos of my bookmark hell, where I was having trouble keeping track of the actually important learning resources. The roadmap worked well for me and eventually I put it up on GitHub because making it public gives me more motivation to keep making progress.
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Looking for Career Change
For me, Ruby was a great choice for a career change. I used to be a teacher until I quit in 2020, then over the next 1.5 years I studied and practiced part-time, while working full-time in a remote customer support job. Ever since I started learning Ruby, I've saved my favorite learning resources here: https://github.com/fpsvogel/learn-ruby. Many of them are free.
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OOP vs. services for organizing business logic: is there a third way?
So I've set out to explore the problem of organizing business logic from more angles than before, using the resources listed below. These lists are excerpted from my "Learning Ruby" road map which I often update, so you may want to find these lists there if this post is old at the time of your reading it. The sections corresponding to the lists below are, at the time of writing, "Rails architecture" and "Rails codebases".
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Ruby for beginners
For more resources, here's my list of my favorites: https://github.com/fpsvogel/learn-ruby
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Learning Rails vs JS ecosystem?
I'll tell my story and you can decide if it resonates with you at all. Also these might help you: my Ruby roadmap (favorite learning resources), and my blog post "How to find your first Rails job".
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what things do I have to learn to build a web app with Rails?
I've made a big list of my favorite learning resources, but here are some possible first steps:
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Recently started first software engineering job, looking for course to improve Rails skills
I actually don't know of a good "beyond the basics" Rails course. The one or two that I've seen out there are prohibitively expensive. For me the best way forward has been to improve in specific areas, such as OOP, testing, and SQL basics. I've made a list of my favorite resources in each area, which might help you.
RubyGems
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Phlex is the ruby way to build your views
However, let's examine a typical partial, such as the one from the . rubygems.org search show page
- Chrome considers gems to be dangerous?
- Rubygems.org Hacked?
- Rubygems.org marked by Chrome as an “unsafe site”
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OOP vs. services for organizing business logic: is there a third way?
github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org (26k lines): Where Ruby gems are hosted.
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RubyGems now requires MFA for owners of top gems
If anyone is looking to do some open source contributions on a mature, production Ruby on Rails site, I highly recommend contributing to the rubygems.org project. The code is extremely clean and the repo is very, very well run.
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org
- Rubygems packages found carrying out dependency confusion research
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Making popular Ruby packages more secure
RubyGems does have gem signing, but it's not widely used.
There's a proposal for a new "one button" approach using sigstore[0].
Other ecosystems are also looking at sigstore too, and a lot of us are cooperating in the OpenSSF Securing Software Repos WG [1]. Package signing is a regular topic of discussion and there are various efforts underway.
Disclosure: I am involved with both of these.
[0] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2944
[1] https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-software-repos
- Due to a bug in the yank action, it was possible for any RubyGems.org user to remove and replace certain gems even if that user was not authorized to do so.
What are some alternatives?
git-katas - A set of exercises for deliberate Git Practice
Bundler
ruby - Exercism exercises in Ruby.
gemdiff - Find source repositories for ruby gems. Open, compare, and update outdated gem versions
AWS-in-bullet-points - ☁️ AWS summary in bullet points
Gem in a Box - Really simple rubygem hosting
alba - Alba is a JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby and TruffleRuby.
gemstash - A RubyGems.org cache and private gem server
Hanami - The web, with simplicity.
passwordless - 🗝 Authentication for your Rails app without the icky-ness of passwords
ruby-science - The reference for writing fantastic Rails applications
SharpZipLib - #ziplib is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform.