What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year ago.. » Ruby, Python, Django, Rails, Linux, Todo-app » Sirupsen's Blog
Ruby is indeed evil. So evil. Extremely evil. But why so evil? Because it’s so beautiful. The syntax is so elegant, everything are objects. Everything makes sense. The Ruby-way of doing things is so sexy.
I quickly headed over to #ruby and asked them what I should do to practise my all-so-awesome Ruby skills, and some guy recommended me coding a todo-app. It seemed it was the new semi-advanced-but-no-so-advanced hello world. So I did, and here’s the extremely awesome output (be prepared, it’s extremely bad code and you should NEVER do something like this in Ruby):
A few days ago I was set off to create my first RubyGem. There are many resources on how to do this, but it took me a good while to gather all the information I figured I’d need for my application, so I’ve decided to gather my bit of knowledge in this article.
This article’s goal is kick start the creation of your first Gem. To make this experience more enjoyable, I’ve chosen to use a gem called Jeweler.