I started learning Ruby and Rails about 3 years ago.
I always didn’t know how to keep up with the community.
I find some clues nowadays. So I share the tips with you here.
Learn to cross The Great Wall if you are in China.
First, use google well, collect everything useful.
Then we can do following things.
Keep up with news
- rubyweekly
- rubyinside
- rubynews
- reddit/r/ruby
- reddit/r/rails
Know the persons
Persons in ruby community are kind.
They do speeches, write blogs and publish books.
Follow them on twitter to get news about them.
Add their blogs to RSS reader.
- Aaron Patterson
- DHH
- Dave Tomas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(programmer)
- http://blog.arkency.com/
- https://github.com/orgs/rails/people
- Github search with: language:Ruby followers:>300
Involve in
- Read the source code of projects
- Report issues and fix bugs
- Maintain your open source project
- Share by blogs, speeches and books