From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-02T02:00:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Good Ruby Examples?

On Dec 1, 2005, at 9:57 AM, James Britt wrote:

> Lou Vanek wrote:
>> C has 'Hello world!'
>> Ruby has the proverbial 'ToDo' list,
>>     http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/7
>
> Except the typical C "Hello, world" example doesn't start with,  
> "First, download and install a set of libraries that does all the  
> interesting bits."

I agree.  Avoid introducing 50 great add-on tools and target language  
basics.

> For a small example, show the use of blocks.

Amen.

I was reading a Java book this morning that talked about the Visitor  
Design Pattern (pretty block-like) as the root of all evil in the  
world.  I actually got mad reading the text.  Now I realize, they  
just don't "get it"...

> Give a Rake demo...

Wait, didn't we just get back to downloading libraries?  ;)  (I'm  
kidding around here.  It's a fine idea.)

Perhaps there's a decent topic, or just some inspiration, hiding in  
the Ruby Quizzes (http://rubyquiz.com/).  Of course, we know I'm  
biases there.

James Edward Gray II