Learning Ruby through unit testing
November 6, 2007
Oh yeah, my Ruby skills are progressing much slower than I’d like. But I’ve found a cool little text that explains how the author learned Ruby through unit tests. That’s pretty cool, and sound just as backwards-yet-making-a-hell-of-a-lot-of-sense as test-driven development. Using the language to learn the language, fun-kee!
So I’m currently reading a little in Programming Ruby and testing my way through the framework. Thank God/Buddha/Vishnu etc. that I don’t have a PC at home (just a white apple), so it’s much more difficult for me to revert to ASP.NET when the new language becomes too complicated.
November 6, 2007 at 22:53
If you like that style of learning you should check out XP guru Ron Jeffries “Extreme Programming Adventures in C#”:
“My colleague Chet Hendrickson and I are working with .NET and C#, to learn it, with the intention of writing the book you’re holding in your hands.”