From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T04:52:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie looking for advice ...

Meisenzahl, Christopher1 wrote:
> I've tinkered w/ Ruby a bit in the past (maybe 1-2 years ago) and even
> bought the Thomas/Hunt Programming Ruby book at the time.
> 
> Unfortunately I never quite picked it up well. I want to use it for text
> processing and report creation, things that many would use Perl for. I
> would also like to use it to manipulate IE for some testing and
> automation tasks. I'm using Ruby on Windows and perhaps my OS X Tiger
> iBook. Using Ruby revision 182-15 at the moment if that makes any sense.
> 
> 1.
> In addition to going back to the Thomas/Hunt book, can you recommend a
> good Ruby tutorial?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/gettingstarted/
	
> 
> 2.
> Where can I find the latest revision of the Ruby FAQ? I'd like to read
> that completely before going much farther.
> 
http://www.rubygarden.org/faq/main/

> 
> 3.
> Anything else I should be sure to check out?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/

Poke around.


James
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