From PHP to Ruby, join me on my journey

You'll find a lot of very helpful people on the ruby-forum.

I moved over from many years of java programming, and have loved what ruby has to offer. Meta-programming, open classes, closures, mixins and plenty more -- and I am not even hard-core.

Do read some source code of projects like Choice, Highline to get an idea of what ruby can do. If you like the command-line, I developed rbcurse while learning ruby.

Thanks for the words of encouragement :)

I've heard a lot of great things about Ruby and I feel like I've finally "conquered" PHP in a sense (although you can never fully know anything), so I'm looking forward to seeing the differences with regards the language and also the frameworks. I've seen people rave about the syntax, so I'm looking forward to some really readable code.

Will look into the open source projects, thanks!

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/fileaccess.html

You might find this helpful. File operations. Most of the perl cookbook has been done in ruby on this site.

Been wanting to take the same journey! Will check your blog.

Awesome :) I don't think you're the only one who has been tempted ;) Check up on my progress and start learning too if you like the look of it! Looking forward to chatting in the comments.