Last night 4 of us (Daiyu, Doug, Steve and I (Scott)) met at Panera. After a few minutes of initial chit chat and food ordering we discussed our backgrounds with Ruby and our interests. Doug was under the impression that perhaps we weren’t a group interested in Rails and we’re just Ruby purists. We rapidly clarified that what brought most of us to Ruby was indeed Rails and we hope our mastery of Ruby would result in building more powerful Rails apps. This triggered the need to publicize ourselves as Ruby & Rails developers to the community.
We then went over OOP constructs, in general, and then how it’s implemented in Ruby. For the last hour we spend most of our time, at Steve’s suggestion, going over some of the Ruby Quiz. We picked the last one #121 and thought about how we might implement it. We quickly realized that at least for this time we would start at #1 and also go over the suggested results and figure out how it worked and why. We were quickly engrossed in multiple irb sessions picking apart the solution and learning some new tricks on the way. All came out of it smarter Rubyists.
We then thought it might be a good idea for future meetings to continue to go through the Ruby Quizzes as a group instead of just going through the book a-la reading group. It’s more interactive and engrossing and interesting to see other people’s solutions. It would be good to encourage others to develop their own solutions to the Ruby Quizzes before coming and to take upon yourself the challenge of solving the problems on your own before resorting to looking at other’s solutions.
Ruby Quiz can be found at http://www.rubyquiz.com/.
