Advice For Ruby Beginners

Advice For Ruby Beginners

Answers questions related to the language; opportunities in Ruby; Ruby’s future

About the Book

The popularity of Ruby grows exponentially and with that, more and more people are learning the language. Most Ruby beginners have a plethora of questions related to the language; opportunities in Ruby; Ruby’s future.

Ruby Gurus: Agnieszka Figiel from Poland, David Black from USA, Fabio Akita from Brazil, Jamie van Dyke from UK, Jamis Buck from USA, Jens-Christian Fischer from Switzerland, Juanjo Bazan from Spain, Julian Tarkhanov from Russia / Netherlands, Manik Juneja from India, Matt Palmer from Australia, Mislav Marohnic from Croatia, Ola Bini from Sweden, Pedro Custodio from Portugal, Peter Cooper from UK, Remco van't Veer from Netherlands and Sau Sheong Chang from Singapore. They give us their perspective on the various questions facing the Ruby beginners – would-be Ruby developers.

About the Editor

Satish Talim
Satish Talim

Satish Talim is the founder of RubyLearning, that helps Ruby programmers become awesome! He has more than 40 years of industrial experience and is a board member at Josh Software Pvt. Ltd. and Maybole Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

He is a trustee on the Emerging Technology Trust that organizes conferences in India like GopherConIndia and RubyConfIndia.

He has published many books on Amazon and was awarded Ruby's Top Teacher in 2008 and the winner of the Shorty Award in Education in 2009.

Follow @indianguru on Twitter or email him at satish@rubylearning.org

About the Contributors

Agnieszka Figiel
Agnieszka Figiel

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Agnieszka Figiel is a computer science graduate from Krakow. She has been involved with Ruby on Rails since 2005, when she joined Lunar Logic Polska, one of the first companies offering Ruby on Rails solutions in Poland. Today she works as a programmer for DreamLab Onet.pl, and additionally she teaches Ruby and RoR at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Since its beginnings she has participated in the local Krakow Ruby User Group.
David Black
David Black

Mr

David Black is a Ruby author, programmer, and trainer. He has been using Ruby since 2000, and is one of the founding co-directors of Ruby Central, Inc., the organization that produces RubyConf and RailsConf. He runs his own consultancy, Ruby Power and Light, LLC.
Fabio Akita
Fabio Akita

Mr

Fabio Akita is also known as akitaonrails. He is a known Brazilian Ruby Activist and has been the program chairman for Rubyconf Brazil 2012 for the last 5 years. He also co-founded Codeminer 42, a software boutique specialized in taking care of outsourced work from fledgling startups that need great Rails developers. Fabio has been publicly evangelizing Ruby, Rails and agile techniques since 2006 and has talked around 100 times in conferences around the globe.
Jamie van Dyke
Jamie van Dyke

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Jamie van Dyke works at Engine Yard and teaches/writes Ruby/Rails course for Skillsmatter also. He has been using Ruby and Rails for 3 years.
Jamis Buck
Jamis Buck

Mr

Jamis Buck has been programming professionally since 1998, in a variety of environments. These days he writes Ruby (on Rails) code full-time, and couldn’t be happier. He is also a father of three children, who keep him and his wife quite busy, and happy. He is also learning woodcarving, and has found that he really enjoys doing things with his hands.
Jens-Christian Fischer
Jens-Christian Fischer

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Jens-Christian Fischer runs a small development company in Zurich, and currently is flooded with Rails projects. He has been doing software development for over 20 years, in a lot of different languages (all the way from Assembler, Pascal, Modula-2, Smalltalk, C, C++, Java, Basic and of course Ruby). He has an interest in computer languages and has dabbled in many others (Prolog, Oberon, Python, Lisp to name a few). He blogs and works on way too many things at the same time!
Juanjo Bazan
Juanjo Bazan

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Juanjo Bazan is a web developer and university professor based in Madrid, Spain. He has been programming professionally (mostly Java) since 1999; now he runs his own little company and after adopting Rails a couple of years ago. he is close to working full-time just with Ruby.He is a member of the organization of the annual Spanish Ruby and Rails Conference and co-founder of the Madrid Ruby User Group.
Julian Tarkhanov
Julian Tarkhanov
Julian Tarkhanov is also known as Julik. During the day he works for a visual effects / post production company in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where they do freaky things with images in commercials and features. Before that he was doing graphic design and web development (the second is kind of a hobby/night job by now). He started out as a pure design person, but being a victim of a few management failings he took over the programming part of his projects and started doing PHP. After about 3 years of doing PHP almost full-time he came to Rails as an implementation of everything he missed or could not do in PHP. He runs a somewhat hideous subversion repository with all things Ruby and Rails where anyone can steal things from.

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