Rubyisms in Rails

Section 8. Conclusion

And with that, our journey through Ruby and Rails has come to an end. I hope this has been educational and inspirational in your understanding of Ruby, but all I can really wish is that you now have a sense of Ruby’s beauty. You can learn Ruby’s syntax and structure, you can learn its classes and modules, you can even learn its metaprogramming; but without understanding its beauty and philosophy, you might as well learn nothing at all. I want you to have something in the end.

Which, funnily enough, brings me back to the beginning. This digital shortcut originally began life as a presentation to the New York City Ruby and Rails Users’ Group. While hanging out at meetings and on IRC, I noticed that newcomers to Rails often ...