From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-06-18T01:18:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Free eBook: The Little Book of Ruby

On 17/06/06, Huw Collingbourne <huw@darkneon.com> wrote:
> This is an eBook for newcomers to Ruby: it contains 10 chapters and
> comes with full source code. It's available for free download from
> http://www.sapphiresteel.com/

It's nice to see a name I recognise from British computer magazines of
old! I've had a brief scan through the book. I think there's been a
gap for a straightforward, simplistic introduction to Ruby, and the
Little Book does a good job of filling it.

I noticed one example of particularly un-idiomatic usage: you define
get_name and set_name methods in chapter 2. More Rubyish would be to
define name and name=. The seamless handling of getter/setter is one
of the joys of Ruby, in my opinion.

Paul