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Ask HN: You have 1 week to get as good as possible at Ruby. What do you do?

9 points by MarcelOlsz ↗ HN
Hey guys, coming from a JavaScript/nodejs background. Haven't touched something OOPy in years. I was wondering if any of you veterans could recommend solid resources that have helped you. I'm trying to get up to speed within a week enough to be able to do some basic features.

Thanks!

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Minor49er
Create a site in Rails that can perform some basic functionality, or a simple API in Grape if you want something lower level.

Personally, I would make use of something simple and interesting like the Discogs API for my project to interact with and create something like a music genre browser or application to connect artists who have worked together:

https://www.discogs.com/developers/

MarcelOlsz
Perfect! That'll do. Thanks.
Minor49er
Now you'll have to create a Show HN when you're finished! :D
MarcelOlsz
That's assuming it ever leaves my github aka my code graveyard (where sideprojects go to die).
TiredGuy
I really enjoyed Ruby Koans. I feel like it gave me a solid feel for the language in a fairly short amount of time.

http://rubykoans.com/

tra3
That's really neat. I like how it goes bottom up. I usually jump into dev with a new language and have to look up every function. This way you build up your knowledge of the language API from the ground up. neat.