From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2011-08-04T21:15:58+09:00
Subject: Re: What type of simple applications you wrote while learning Ruby?

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Rubyist Rohit
<passionate_programmer@hotmail.com> wrote:
> If that is the case, I assume I am on the right path by writing a sample
> Rails application.
> Chris Kottom wrote in post #1014908:
>> I doubt I'm saying anything controversial by stating that most people
>> who
>> know Ruby today probably got their start using Rails and that and even
>> higher percentage have never written a GUI application using the
>> language.

I learned about the existence of Ruby reading about Rails, but I
thought I'd rather learn the language first.
In the end I haven't written any Rails application. I started learning
through tutorials, and then Project Euler math problems. Then I
started writing little scripts that I needed, and then a turn-based
game framework, a couple sinatra applications, and several other
little things.

Editors I've used: Scite, vim, cream, redcar and lately sublime text 2.
Please note that I haven't built any big project, so I just use text
editors and not full IDEs.

If you need to use Rails for something, then by all means, go ahead.
But if you want to learn the Ruby language first, I wouldn't start
building rails applications, but other things.

Jesus.