Thanks for your comment, nice to know about all th...

2010-08-16T18:07:51.545+10:00

Thanks for your comment, nice to know about all that.

My idea was to start the challenge for a real application so that people can discuss what is happening.
The Ruby quiz and similar are pretty isolated (though a reaaallly interesting).
TopCoder is probably a good choice here, I was not aware of that at the moment I wrote the article.

Thanks again for the suggestions.

Check TopCoder if you haven't yet. They don...

2010-08-16T16:45:22.103+10:00

Check TopCoder if you haven't yet. They don't have Ruby competitions there, but they do have .Net and Java (and now Objective-C) and they pay real money for your time. So you can combine the pleasure of learning with receiving money for your work.

As for the Ruby Challenge, there's enough groups like that around. Take Ruby Quiz for instance, that is out there what it seems for ages. They pose interesting challenges and discuss the solutions. Also, you can turn to Code Kata which is intended to develop the sense of the problem and practise your ability to think, while giving you a real-world problems to toy with.

As I said, there's plenty, and there's totally no need to drive anything in existence to what you think the ideal. If you can't find what you need, imagine it as your next assignment -- to create a web site like what you just described -- and go implement it.

Satish doesn't have time to work on the Ruby Challenge as he is riding a cool new wave of Clojure now, and you are concerned about his old favorite far more than he is. Take it easy. Projects come and go every day. :)

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