These slides were presented as a flash talk (5 minutes) at the http://www.montrealrb.com/ meetup in May 2013. It was originally titled "Get advanced education for 300$" but the title didn't work as well as this one. It's a good list of really helpful resources for Rubyists.

1. Path to Mastery
A short list of helpful resources for Rubyists
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2. About Me
• CTO at Codified.co
• Building the best platform to buy, sell and
discuss with other people in a fun, engaging
and non-threatening environment
• We are hiring
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3. Practical Object-
Oriented Design in
Ruby
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4. 30$
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5. POODR
• Write code that is easier to maintain and
upgrade
• Know where to put what
• Improve flexibility of codebase
• Reduce overhead costs with duck typing
• cost effective tests, inheritance vs
composition and plenty more
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6. Why I recommend it
• Readable
• Understandable
• Short (240 pages with color syntax)
• Provides us all with a common vocabulary
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7. Ruby Tapas
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8. 9$/month
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9. Ruby Tapas
• Short 2-10 minutes
• Subjects vary from nice ruby idioms to
coding style to ruby features
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10. Why I recommend it
• Fun examples
• Barewords tapas was my favorite
• Cheap for the value you get out of it
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11. Railscasts
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12. 9$ a month
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13. Railscasts
• Learn about libraries
• Absolutely every popular gem is on there
• Stuff you need to know (upgrading rails,
caching, exception handling)
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14. Why I recommend it
• Free catalog is good on its own
• It’s handy to know about a lot of libraries
• Caveats that you wouldn’t know from gem
README
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15. Destroy All Software
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16. 200$
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17. DAS
• Learn about services
• Fast tests
• Isolation
• OO, Unix,Vim
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18. Why I recommend it
• Dude is fast
• Learn all kinds of tricks about using your
editor properly
• He questions assumptions about Rails we
might take for granted
• Explains thought process building an
application
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19. Ruby Rogues
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20. Free or10+$/year
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21. RR
• 105 podcasts on a wide range of topics
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22. Why I recommend it
• Knowledgeable hosts and guests
• They talk about stuff like team dynamics,
coding styles, estimating projects, and all
kinds of stuff that affects us in our career.
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23. • POODR
• Ruby Tapas
• Railscasts
• DAS
• Ruby Rogues
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24. Thank you
@garyharan
gary.haran@gmail.com
www.garyharan.com
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