How to get better at Ruby scripting?

• codewars.com

  714 2,078 3.5

  Issue tracker for Codewars

  

If you want to get better at Ruby in general maybe try codewars?

• rubygems

  212 3,566 9.9 Ruby

  Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.

  

I think the first thing to do is get out of the rails comfort zone and get used to hacking inside of IRB with a local bundle. bundle exec irb -I. is where everything ruby begins for me. Just start searching for gems @ rubygems.org for something related to a task you want to complete, start using it, then clone its code into a local directory and dig around to see how it works. Being intimately familiar with RVM or the environment manager of your choice will also help a great deal in knowing where and how the path is configured, where gemfiles are located, and how to deal with multi-user environments on servers if need be.

• Scout Monitoring

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• dotenv

  20 6,514 8.5 Ruby

  A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`. (by bkeepers)

Decompose configuration settings into something like .env in your development environment versus hard coding things inline, e.g. server urls, ip addresses. This way when you go to production they can be read from the environment which your orchestration, e.g. docker, puppet, ansible, will bootstrap.

• TTY

  8 2,478 0.0 Ruby

  Toolkit for developing sleek command line apps.

If you're interested in taking things further, maybe have a look at Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2. If you're not ready to buy a book, check out the Ruby TTY Toolkit page.

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