Sam Carr’s Dog Speaks

Just testing the posting capabilities of my cellular phone. Alright, so I’m just checking my ability to post with my phone. Semantics. heh.

Well, I signed up for a free online Ruby course at rubylearning.org some time last week. Classes start tomorrow and I’m pumped.

I’ve been seeing the popularity of Ruby, decidedly due to the Rails framework, skyrocket in the past few years. It seems that lately, you can hardly go to a web design or web development centric site without seeing a bright red gem or a red locomotive on the home page.

I read somewhere that Ruby is entirely Oo, which really piqued my interest. I’ve been wanting to get my noodle wrapped around OOP for years while dealing with PHP and javascript; not to mention (though I am) my very short lived foray into the seemingly mind-numbing world of C++ that I embarked upon.

Once I realized that Ruby might hold the key to my eternal salvation, I decided not to take my usual tack when trying to learn a programming or scripting language. That process would be best described as: buy a few $50 tomes, crack them open enough to get a feel for the writers’ personalities and then let them sit on my bookshelf while knowing that I am free at any time to pick them up and soak it all in.