From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-02T13:02:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Project Ideas to get someone hired...

Best of luck, Colby -- Ruby is the most fun programming language I've
used since Lisp. In addition to learning how to code in Ruby, you
should also be definitely looking at the whole ecosystem out there for
testing, writing, debugging, storing, and deploying applications, be
they gems, rails apps, sinatra apps, desktop apps, etc. I'm not at all
familiar with Windows-based development, so I can't really recommend
tools and such, except what might be available cross-platform. Getting
up on a GNU/Linux VM might be really helpful, I can't say for coming
from Windows. Something else is getting used to the *nix command line;
outside of my editing environemnt, and when I have to use the web for
things such as github, I practically *live* on the command line.

But most of all: Have Fun!