From: "Meisenzahl, Christopher1" <christopher1.meisenzahl@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T04:57:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie looking for advice ...


Thanks very much James!

Chris




> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Britt [mailto:james_b@neurogami.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 3:52 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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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