I'm a front-end dev currently being asked to work on a Rails API backend. What are some good resources to get comfortable with the language and the framework?

• curriculum

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I can highly recommend The Pragmatic Studio Course and The Odin Project.

• ruby

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Ruby: - The Well-Grounded Rubyist. It covers some advanced Ruby, so it's worthwhile even if you already know some Ruby. - Exercism for Ruby practice.

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• learn-ruby

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• ruby-science

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It's a bit more advanced, but I like Ruby Science by thoughtbot.

• rswag

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  Seamlessly adds a Swagger to Rails-based API's

  

https://github.com/rswag/rswag - helps generate Swagger documentation (you can upload it to an external service, like readme.com or serve from your Rails app)

• alba

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