What Next?

whatnext?.md

Community

1. Austin On Rails

Austin's monthly meetup of the Rails community. This is a great way to get to know the local community and to see some excellent presentaions on software development both novice and advanced. (At Capital Factory)

2. Cafe Bedouins

A Weekly meetup of developers to work, chat, and socialize over excellent coffee or beer at Houndstooth on 42nd and Lamar.

3. The Maker Square

A ten week immersive course designed to teach to web development and prepare you for your first job as a developer.

4. Hackernews

Everyone needs help to stay excited and engaged, a daily dose of Hackernews will keep you fresh.

Essential Learning Tools

1. Rails Tutorial

Work through this tutorial, it has concrete examples and will give you all the fundamental tools you need to build and deploy apps with ruby.

2. Ruby Koans

This is a great set of puzzles for learning the ins and outs of programming with ruby.

3. Railscasts

Excellent screencasts for working with Rails libraries and implementing any given feature you might want to incorporate into an app, from authorization to code syntax highlighting.

4. Code School Ruby Path

It is worthwhile to do the other courses too, but these are great, and will help you to learn to build rails apps in a very guided and highly interactive manner.

5. Learn Street

Learn to code with interactive lessons.

6. Ruby Off Rails

Learn ruby with a mentor online.

6. SublimeText

If you don't plan on using vim, use sublimetext2 it is the best GUI text editor out there.

Ruby and Rails Documentation

1. Rails Guides

This is a great resource for getting to know the ins and outs of rails. It has some great examples of the variety of ways common methods can be used.

2. APIdock

A brilliant documentation engine for rails, quickly find and inspect core rails classes and methods. This site is great because it has comments about the methods and their edge cases and interesting ways they can be used. Even better it is super easy to navigate.

3. Ruby Doc

Ruby documentation, other than APIdock this is the best resource for finding ruby methods.

More Advanced

1. Destroy All Software

Deep knowledge of software composition and testing patterns, may possibly blow your mind.

2. Practical Object Oriented Design with Ruby

This is the first ruby book to really hold my attention.

3. Vimcasts

Learn Vim! You know you want to.

4. Rubytapas

Some really nice, short screencasts on ruby ins and outs.

Great list, thanks for sharing and presenting.

There was a list of groups and Twitter handles posted on the whiteboard. Did anybody capture that? It might be useful to include here.