I'm a beginner, where should I go to?

[Ben Aurel]

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

 

[Ben Aurel]

gmail should rename the 'Send' button into 'read again and find typos'
so don't blame me

A little accretion to my post: I asked for the beginner list because I
have the habbit of asking stupid questions. It's often the only way
for me to understand things, but I also want to avoid by any means to
piss people off by 'polluting' 'their' mailinglist.

 

[Frederick Cheung]

A little accretion to my post: I asked for the beginner list because I
have the habbit of asking stupid questions. It's often the only way
for me to understand things, but I also want to avoid by any means to
piss people off by 'polluting' 'their' mailinglist.

Hi Ben,

There isn't a beginners list, so post away! There's some talk about
whether or not one should be created, but nothing concrete has
happened yet.

Fred

 

[Casimir]

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:

 

[Ben Aurel]

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.

 

[Ben Aurel]

so post away!

on workingwithrails.com your authority level is 50% and the popularity
level is 96% so I guess I must believe you

 

[Trans]

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'.

Every line you write will have to be rewritten 10 times. You can
usually tell poor code b/c it looks as if it has only been rewritten 5
times

T.