From: Mage <mage@...>
Date: 2006-01-24T00:56:31+09:00
Subject: greetings

          Hello,

some months ago I started to use Python and to see the light.

Now my eyes are a bit burned so I went back to the darkness (for some 
glittering red gem). I started Ruby.

I read almost the whole pragmatic programmer book without writing a 
piece of code, except this: 15.times { puts 'I love you, xxx'}, where 
xxx were my girlfriend's name. From that moment she also started to like 
Ruby.

It is a good book. However, it is based on Ruby 1.6. I failed to find 
something like "what changed from 1.6 to 1.8". Can you help me?

Also, the reference is hard to read. It took a simple google session to 
find the quoted-printable method (Array.pack('M')). I think it could be 
easier to find in the manual.

Setting up postgresql was quite easy (apt-get install libpgsql-ruby). 
The documented PGconn.open method generated error, it said that it is 
protected method. I use PGconn.new. Is it normal? I cannot skip the 
'port' parameter with the new method.

On the whole I am happy with my first Ruby script and with the language 
itself.

          Mage