Welcome to the wonderful world of Ruby! On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Rafal Chmiel <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering what that term even meant. Is it something to do with > one's amount of knowledge about the Ruby language or just the plain idea > of using it. When can one call themselves a "Rubyist"? And would you > consider yourself one?
There is a secret fraternity of Ruby programmers. Once a year they meet in a dark room in the back of a Ruby conference and the high priest of the fraternity will appoint all novices Rubyist who dare apply, are able to program a method using a block free of bugs, will bow before the group and say three times "I am unworthy but I will try my best to worship Ruby." It's not known what happens to those who fail at the attempt - nobody has ever seen one of those again... Reality is, there are no official criteria nor are there exams you could take to call yourself "Rubyist". I wouldn't worry too much about that "title". > P.S. Also asked at programmers.stackexchange.com however quickly closed > (as not constructive). I'm new to these forums so I'm not sure if my > kind of question is appropriate. No worries. The Ruby community is usually quite friendly to those who show serious interest in the language and are willing to learn (despite some unfriendly comments recently). Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- [email protected] | https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ruby-talk-google?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ruby-talk-google" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
