Wondering if anyone can suggest a good website or even youtube channel where I can learn a bit more about Ruby, I can understand a little but a lot goes over my head but I would like to learn more so that when I run into bugs when using RPG Maker XP I am able to figure out what is going wrong better.
I’m not personally experienced with RPG Maker XP (and disclaimer, I’m not familiar with Ruby either!), but critical to troubleshooting code issues, is being able to review the debug output when you run it.
With that, you should hopefully be able to “Google it” and find what is hopefully useful information about where things have gone awry. Over time, things should become more familiar to you.
Are you using a separate IDE to code it (like Visual Studio Code), or is it all done within RPG Maker XP? The IDE can often be very beneficial in identifying coding syntax issues too.
This is what I have been trying to do and luckily I understand enough to know what is not right and to backup before trying changes I am unsure of, I have a script where I extract the files and another to combine them again but yer so many results are wrong it ain’t funny.
I’ll give it a look, thanks
Pretty obvios:
Yer thanks I did look at this but it was a bit too basic in a way (not saying it is a bad resource but it is more for writing code than figuring out what is going wrong though I might have missed something with how my brain is right now so I will have another look), my main goal is to figure out crashes etc rather than actually write code
Not necessary learning how to code.
But reading introductions and tutorials.
It is rare to see good book this days not presented on official project page.
In any case. Resources remains the same, coding debugging testing or studying something else. Source of documentation exactly the same. Difference only in reader processing it.
Yer I get ya. Thanks again, once I have had a bit of rest I will check it out again hey, thanks
Yer they are quite handy, A big reason I love using Pokemon Essentials is the ammount of documentation in it, not only online but in the default maps which allow you to learn how to set events, stop progession until event occurs etc (switch set - these where scary when I started but now see just how awesome they are)
May worth to go into local book store and look for “Ruby for kids / dummies” something books. Physical book can be much nicer to play with and such books sometimes really good.
I was unable BTW read official rust-book. Somehow unbearable reading. So learning just by hacking things.
Another good approach, break something and try to fix it, only real way to learn is to break things 
Not around here, they expensive as but going to see ma in a few days and books way cheaper there so will try keep in mind, thanks
Well this is what I have been doing, problem here is me, I forget to make a backup and make heap of changes then break something I can’t figure out at all - me issue
I have the same problem with the rust book. I’m taking this course on Udemy.
Thanks for the resource will check it out
Is it worth paying for?
Happy to if it is useful but yer I struggle learning by reading
For rust it is. For ruby, I’d do a search and see what comes up.
- Look for a course with at least a rating of 4.5 with quite a few reviews.
- Wait for a Udemy sale. They happen fairly often and over here at least, you get £70 courses for £12 - £15.
You may get a decent tutorial for free on you tube.
Courses are not for me. Quality is usually too low. I paid for Europe Institute AI certification course and its just endless Google AI cloud stuff ad.
Do not remember single positive experience with any sorts of courses, they useless without human to human interactions anyway.
Yer was looking at it and it would be overkill for what I am doing, my main reason for learning some ruby is to squash bugs as they occur, had 0ne today caused by not putting in a comma at the end which did my head in for ages cos I kept missing it when I looked at the script
This is why asked if the course was worth it. I learn by doing and watching not reading, though by doing and watching that normally covered