I don’t live near many rubyists.

Having spent my Ruby/Rails career in remote Montana and then in remote Cornwall (UK), I have been very lucky to craft and create software while enjoying being removed from the city life. I also get to work for a small, flexible company. The trade off? Almost all of my ‘Ruby’ networking and community has had to come from web-accessible resources.

I recently spoke at Isle of Ruby(which will get its own post soon). This topic came up with some there. Following further discussions I decided to publish my favorite ruby resource for those of you in a similar position.

This list is by no means comprehensive and changes all the time, but it’s the sort of thing I wish I had access to from day one. Without further adieu….

A few of my favorite (ruby) things

I post generally useful things I come across and ‘do not want to forget’ (i.e. more than a bookmark) on my page here: https://schwad.github.io/reading-list/

Podcasts

Newsletters/Blogs:

RubyWeekly. This is my bible. If I listen to or read nothing else I always read this. I remember the first time they shared a post of mine on here and I felt like a hero!

RubyTapas by Avdi Grimm - he also runs several newsletters including one called ‘Brunch’

Schneems! Really nice guy and big contributor, has a blog and newsletter. Very helpful stuff for me from community perspective

Aaron Patterson - He doesn’t write here much but as one of the big names his writings are great

Jesus Castello

Andy Croll (who organizes Brighton Ruby Conf)

Drifting Ruby - they are releasing pro-only videos sometimes now but this is my favorite screencast-er with weekly updates on really interesting stuff and I find it incredibly useful. One of the hosts of Ruby Rogues does this

Finally Code Triage. Seriously, it really helped me go from ‘I never have done any open source help’ to making it a habit. I just get random notifications about old PRs and Issues and I read them. If they need a ‘bump’ I kindly write ‘Hey what’s happening here?’. And once in a while I can actually help from the technical perspective.

Missing anything?