I’ve dabbed with katas, informal katas (ie scratch projects) and koans.

Cool to see that Rails got you interested in Ruby. Also pretty cool that you can write like a C programmer in Ruby & have it still function.

Sounds like I’m newer to programming than you are, but if you’d ever like to do some pair programming on a project, like buffer’s api wrapper in Ruby, it’d be fun . At the very least I could help share some of the Ruby idioms and shortcuts with you, even if you’re ahead of me in other ways.

Since you’re interested in the Buffer-Ruby gem, consider checking out the gem that I started from scratch:

Buff – https://github.com/zph/buff

I felt some pains when working with the official gem and wanted to see how long it took to achieve feature parity with it. The official gem only covers ~ 20% of their API and I was able to reach that point with decently clean code in 8 hrs. That included an hour or two lost due to a scrapped design .

If I have time, I’ll keep expanding out the buff gem to include 100% coverage of Buffer’s API.

So, if you’d like to try any pair programming on it or something else, it’d be fun.

Thanks for the post! I’ve been working with Rails for a couple of years now and have realized I’d like to know more Ruby as I’ve seen I write Ruby code like a C programmer. Euler seems like a cool way to sharpen my skills and I’ve been using it as a bit of a code kata. Thanks for the post (and for the Buffer gem)!

I saw that you forked my repo of Buffer-Ruby on Github and wanted to checkout your webpage .

Cool that you’re learning Ruby!

I added a bit more of the Ruby idioms to your Euler example:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

sum = 0

(1..999).each do |i|
if (i % 3) == 0 || (i % 5) == 0
sum += i
puts i
end

end

puts “Sum: #{sum}”

Hmm, the formatting is mangled. I’m cross posting it here for better aesthetics: https://gist.github.com/zph/12dcb49b03292fd01b77