I just love the Ruby community!

Kyle Heon — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:43:00 +0000

A few weeks back I started this thread on the Ruby Talk mailing list inquiring as to whether there were any equivalents to RoboCode or Terrarium to aid in the learning of Ruby.

The thread went on for days and even broke out into a couple groups forming a project to start development when suddenly RRobots was announced on the list.

I just got around to really looking into this and I downloaded a few of the bots that were sent via the mailing list. This is a pretty impressive port (using that term loosely) of RoboCode. I hope that over the next few nights I can start to dive in and build a few bots. I’d love to see a community spring up around this very awesome training tool.

I’ve been playing around with Ruby on Rails now since early this year. I’ve bought and read the books, drank the coolaid, and all that but because I don’t get to program in Ruby professionally (as in at work) I’m struggling to really reach that eureka moment where all things Ruby suddenly make sense and I’m hopeful that something like this might be just what the doctor ordered.

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I just love the Ruby community!