[OFF] How to introduce Ruby to more people

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Ruby in our country is strangeness,many people even have not hear about it.
Not like PERL or Python,they are very popular.
I LIKE/LOVE it ,and wish more and more people will know it,learn it and use it .
But i'm not sure how to introduce it to others even our country .
I'm eager for your advices.

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bin liu wrote:

Ruby in our country is strangeness,many people even have not hear about it.
Not like PERL or Python,they are very popular.
I LIKE/LOVE it ,and wish more and more people will know it,learn it and use it .
But i'm not sure how to introduce it to others even our country .
I'm eager for your advices.

Show them example ruby code that uses blocks, iterators and exception handling to open & process a file using very few lines of code--and in a way that gracefully handles errors and guarantees the file is closed.

Or show them this page and ask them how much code it would take them to do something similar in their favorite scripting language (see the Model Code and Example Usage):

   Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

And finally, here's 37 reaons someone else loves ruby :slight_smile:

   http://hypermetrics.com/ruby37.html

Tell them the ruby community is very friendly. (one of the 2 other languages you mentioned are notoriously unfriendly in their IRC channel)

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bin liu wrote:

Ruby in our country is strangeness,many people even have not hear about it.
Not like PERL or Python,they are very popular.
I LIKE/LOVE it ,and wish more and more people will know it,learn it and use it .
But i'm not sure how to introduce it to others even our country .
I'm eager for your advices.

Don't try to describe it. No description really captures the beauty and the elegance of the language. Try to show it.
I got interested in ruby during fosdem 2004, where the presenter (don't remember the name) made a distributed application with yaml persistence in an hour. (while explaining every step). When I compared both the beauty of the code and the time needed to my Java background.. Well, it was hard not to get interested in ruby :slight_smile:

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Jan ha scritto:

bin liu wrote:

Ruby in our country is strangeness,many people even have not hear about it.
Not like PERL or Python,they are very popular.
I LIKE/LOVE it ,and wish more and more people will know it,learn it and use it .
But i'm not sure how to introduce it to others even our country .
I'm eager for your advices.

Don't try to describe it. No description really captures the beauty and the elegance of the language. Try to show it.
I got interested in ruby during fosdem 2004, where the presenter (don't remember the name) made a distributed application with yaml persistence in an hour. (while explaining every step). When I compared both the beauty of the code and the time needed to my Java background.. Well, it was hard not to get interested in ruby :slight_smile:

I agree with this. BTW I think that one of the best way to show ruby is putting togheter little articles for magazines (both printed and online) about something soewhat interesting.
Something like "a tiny application to play chess online" or "basic bot" or "automate this stuff with web service" that people can use for their own purposes, getting caught in the "mh.. this could be better, I'll learn a little more ruby.." loop.

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* J. D. <jd@nospam.com> [1243 03:43]:

bin liu wrote:
>Ruby in our country is strangeness,many people even have not hear about it.
>Not like PERL or Python,they are very popular.
>I LIKE/LOVE it ,and wish more and more people will know it,learn it and
>use it .
>But i'm not sure how to introduce it to others even our country .
>I'm eager for your advices.
>

Show them example ruby code that uses blocks, iterators and exception
handling to open & process a file using very few lines of code--and in a
way that gracefully handles errors and guarantees the file is closed.

Dave's article is good for that :

http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-09/ruby_01.html

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