From: Jules Jacobs <julesjacobs@...>
Date: 2006-01-19T21:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice)

John Maclean wrote:
> Chaps,
> 
> Ruby seems like a great language and the book's good too. However a 
> novice like me won't be able to appreciate *.rb when there's soooo many 
> examples of "there's more than one way to do it". I learn pretty quickly 
> and even faster when I can understand a concept, test it and see that it 
> works. How do you other novices feel about this?
> 
> This is not a rant/flame/plug my book/some other language is better 
> posting ;)

I think I do not understand what you mean...

If you mean that you have to create a new *.rb file to test something: 
use IRB.
IRB is really good for testing. Just type: "irb" in a console.

Jules

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