Codecademy

[p3king]

Hi guys,

a workmate showed me this site yesterday when I told him I was trying to get into Ruby for RMVXA scripting:

http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/ruby

It is free and seems to be really nice from what I´ve seen up to now.
You do interactive courses where you write code in a Ruby sandbox (using your browser).
If you´re done you can execute your code and if you did it right you advance to the next course.

Also, for all achievement and badge hunters out there, there´s that kind of system too.

I did a search and couldn´t find this mentioned on the forums before so I thought this might be helpful for some of you, as it really is for me.

[Fall From Eden]

I swear by RubyMonk, personally, but it's always nice to have more resources around for scripters to make use of. For anyone else who doesn't already know this, there's also the official Ruby documentation available online -- if you're using VX Ace, just have a look at the Ruby 1.9.2 Core reference.

[BadWolf]

Is the Ruby scripting language the one used on XP as well?

[Mr_Wiggles]

I always use this site for refrences:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

I'm checking out both of those online tuts, gotta say they both look really helpful.

[p3king]

Is the Ruby scripting language the one used on XP as well?

I can´t really tell because I don´t own XP, but I think the basics of ruby shouldn´t have changed much.
It´s probably more the RGSS lib. Don´t quote me on this though

Edit:
Looking at this site here it really shouldn´t affect the basics, but see for yourself.

[LoganF]

Is the Ruby scripting language the one used on XP as well?

It is the same language, but the version is different. XP and VX both use Ruby version 1.8.1. VXA uses 1.9.1, however. If you do use resources to learn the language, it's always worth checking what version of Ruby is being used. The latest* stable version of Ruby is 2.0.0-p0, released about 3 weeks ago. Since the change from version 1.x to 2.0 would suggest a fairly substantial change, I would definitely check the sites you resource from.

*as of the post being written.

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Thank you. This is great timing. :3

[Double-U]

@p3king :

Wow Thanks! :-D
This is really a great site.

@Fall From Eden and Mr_Wiggles

Amazing!
Thanks guys this is really what I was looking for :-)