I am interested in getting into developing plugins, but I work as an AI researcher and as such I only really have decent experience with Python. And I have never done anything with Ruby before. So I thought I’d ask here if any of you think it’s quite easy to jump from Python to Ruby? I’ve chatted w…

A few thoughts. If the premise of your question is whether you can transition from a Python developer into developing stuff to work with Discourse, then the answer is a little more nuanced. As you’ve discovered, the journey from Python to Ruby is relatively trivial. You can make Ruby do what you c…

Thank you very much for your detailed response — I really appreciate this. I guess I’ll start reading through the developer documentation then :smiley: . [image] bletch: I’m a hobby coder with a few miles on the clock Have you by any chance tried coding Discourse stuff using Cline is Visual …

Is going from Python to Ruby easy?

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) June 29, 2025, 10:51am 4

If you do that, it may actually turn out quite well, especially if you’re using a dev environment, since IIRC the dev environment can even auto-reload with changes.

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