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title: "Diving into Ruby on Rails"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2010/11/20/diving-into-ruby-on-rails.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2010/11/20/diving-into-ruby-on-rails.html"
published: "2010-11-20T19:30:51"
updated: "2010-11-20T19:30:51"
tags: ["RoR"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "One of my missions in the coming year is to learn and get to know Ruby on Rails, and working with Ubuntu Linux. Here are the resources I’m currently using to get to learn Ruby on Rails: Listen to The Ruby Show podcast –…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Diving into Ruby on Rails

By Roy Osherove November 20, 2010 In [RoR](https://osherove.com/blog/category/ror)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 20, 2010; technical details may be outdated.

One of my missions in the coming year is to learn and get to know Ruby on Rails, and working with Ubuntu Linux. Here are the resources I’m currently using to get to learn Ruby on Rails:

- Listen to [The Ruby Show podcast](http://5by5.tv/rubyshow) – to listen to what rubyists talk about (hint – lots of tools and extensions you’ve never heard about)
- Go to [TryRuby.org](http://tryruby.org/) for a 15 min. interactive Ruby tutorial in your browser
- Go to [RailsForZombies.org](http://railsforzombies.org/) for an interactive and fun Ruby on Rails Tutorial and labs, inside your browser.
- Get the book [Rails 3 in Action](http://www.manning.com/katz/) from Manning. It’s a well written and nicely composed book, that starts from the basic -  doing spec and test first rails applications.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/