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Ruby dreams? Make that dream a reality! Start by making your first Ruby on Rails app, a ToDo list: via @Skillcrush

So you know your way around HTML & CSS. You’ve made your own website, and even tried implementing a jQuery plugin or two. But what you dream of is digging into the backend. But where to begin? You tried TryRuby.org (so fun!) and started to read _why’s poignant guide to ruby , but how to translate your experimentation into something actionable, or better yet, practical? Time to take that conceptual Ruby knowledge and put it to use: make a ToDo list (or variation thereof) in Ruby on Rails! Will you be solving a hard problem ? No. A problem no one has solved before? Nope! That’s not the point! Your goal is to get started, see if you can write some real, live Ruby code and make the language do what you want it to. The best way to learn a new programming language is to give yourself a difficult, but manageable, and concrete task. And get to work. And don’t worry if your code is...

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