From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-04-15T20:44:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a Ruby tutorial for Java programmer


"Kevin" <816168@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1113559125.482547.238340@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Hello everyone, I am new to here. I have been using Java for 5 years,
> before that, did a few small projects in perl (web site, shopping cart,
> things like that).
>
> Now I wish to learn something new and decided I should pick up a new
> language. I have looked around for sometime. Recently I read a basic
> introduction on Python , it's a feature by feature comparison with
> Java, and this writing style really got my attention and it helped my
> understanding of  the stuff in python. I also looked Groovy, pnut, but
> I want to get to know Ruby a little bit before choosing one to
> concentrate on. I am sure there are lots of excellent ruby tutorials,
> Just curious if there is one specifically geared at java programmer. If
> not, I will still study ruby using available tutorials.
>
> Most of my works are of back end of commercial web sites, things like
> database access, web services, networking, search engine, both Windows
> and non windows platform. For projects in these fields, between ruby
> and python, which one should I learn? I appreciate your information and
> suggestions. Thanks in advance.

Well, you don't really expect someone here to suggest using Python, do
you? ;-)

Here are some links a quick Google search revealed:
http://onestepback.org/articles/usingruby/
http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/ruby/idioms.shtml
http://farm.tucows.com/blog/Languages/Java/_archives/2005/1/31/295142.html

Kind regards

    robert