From: Kevin Bedell <kevin@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T00:46:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Certification

I'd say certification in Ruby would be close to worthless anyway. The culture of
any shop that would use Ruby as a primary development platform wouldn't lend
itself to pinhead hiring practices that place certification ahead of
experience.

The best way to learn would be find an open source project (any of the many
Ruby/Rails components) and start contributing. Pick any project and offer to
help. It'll take you a while, but you'll be surprised how fast you'll come up
to speed by interacting with the other committers. It's like having a set of
personal coaches.

And having that on your resume will go a lot further than having certification
anyway. Plus, you'll actually become a good Ruby programmer.

-kevin


Kevin Bedell
http://www.kbedell.com

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
 - Albert Einstein