From: Harish TM <harish.tmh@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T05:36:45+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm having a hard time learning ruby.

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hope some of these help


http://www.ruby-doc.org/
Documentation


http://ruby.cenophobie.com/rubycheat.php
The ruby cheat sheet - should go through this one


http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html
the ruby quick ref


http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Ruby
wiki book if that helps


http://www.artima.com//rubycs/articles/patterns_sexp_dsls.html
stuff you might want to read latter on...



If you are going to code really seriously might want some theoretical stuff
about general coding:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html


The links say it all
http://www.techbooksforfree.com/
http://www.techtoolblog.com/archives/195-free-online-programming-books


Hope that helps



Harish





On 8/4/06, Seth Thomas Rasmussen <sethrasmussen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Don't forget ri!
>
> $ ri Array#each
> $ ri Enumerable
>
> etc.
>
> :)
>
> Nate Imaqaguy wrote:
> > For starters, just do you know where I'm coming from: I have little to
> > no programming experience, except for some C and VB classes I took 6
> > years ago, which I did fine in.
> >
> > My biggest hurdle getting started with ruby is finding which
> > methods/classes/files to call upon for whatever the heck I'm trying to
> > accomplish.
> >
> > I'm use to being able to perform a search, like in MSDN Library, using
> > key words of something I'm trying to perform.  Then research results
> > from there, and get pointed in the right direction (with explanations on
> > what the feature does, and examples, etc).
> >
> > The editors also helped with showing the available methods, as I wrote
> > the code.
> >
> > So, with ruby, I'm using the SciTE editor (on WinXP), which doesn't give
> > method options as you go.  Yeah, I know they are kinda like training
> > wheels, but they help when you're starting out.
> >
> > And I can't really find any close equivalent to using something like an
> > MSDN Library.  The best thing someone has pointed me to so far is
> > http://www.ruby-doc.org/.  Which is cool and all, but it's not really
> > "searchable"-you kind of have to know what file/class/method to look up
> > in the first place.  And even if I find what I think I'm looking for,
> > the documentation is confusing to me.  Sometimes there isn't the
> > slightest word as to what something does.
> >
> > Someone told me about ".methods", but that only works if you're in an
> > irb session, which I find painful to use because I have to type all my
> > code in, line by line.  I can't even figure out how to paste each line
> > of the code I already have.  Inevitably I fat finger something and get
> > mad.
> >
> > So, you can kinda see a n00bs frustration....
> >
> > I must be missing something big.  Any tips (other than "try not to suck
> > so much")?
> >
> > = )
> >
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
>

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