From: Ben Aurel <ben.aurel@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T20:44:46+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm a beginner, where should I go to?

> For example, look at ruby Pretty, or these:
> http://ruby.sadi.st/Ruby_Sadist.html

I found nothing for 'ruby Pretty' do you have a link maybe
I've installed Ruby Sadist, but analysing the results is a bit too
complicated for me at rightnow.

Do you know http://perlcritic.com/. It's really cool especially for
learning and improving your perl skills. Something like this for ruby
would be awesome.


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Casimir <pikEISPAMMMseli@welho.com> wrote:
> Perhaps you could use different code profiling tools and benchmarks to learn
> what works well and what doesn't?
>
> For example, look at ruby Pretty, or these:
> http://ruby.sadi.st/Ruby_Sadist.html
>
> Casimir Pohjanraito
>
> Ben Aurel kirjoitti:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Ben Aurel <ben.aurel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi
>>> After working with some ruby projects and playing with existing
>>> sources I decided to finally get my hands dirty. It's an interesting
>>> experiences with similarities of learning a human language where your
>>> comprehension skills are far more better than your speaking skills.
>>> Basically the problem I have that I've written too much excellent ruby
>>> code, without a deeper knowldedge of what the code really do, but with
>>> a rather feeling 'that looks terse' vs. 'that looks clunky'.
>>> Now that I actually begin to write code of my own, I find myself in a
>>> similar position as somebody after a brainsurgery trying to learn how
>>> to speak. Its grinding and for every line I write I think for myself
>>> 'oh god that's probably wrong'.
>>> So the thing I'm looking for is a mailinglist where I can post my
>>> pathetic code in order to discuss it with some more experienced
>>> writers.
>>> thanks
>>> ben
>>>
>>
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