From: Rich Morin Date: 2006-09-26T06:52:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Fresh Fish!! Actually, I wouldn't suggest either one as a tutorial. "Programming Ruby" is a fine reference, but is a bit terse as an introduction. "Ruby in a Nutshell" is a bit dated, but it is handy as a pocket reference. I would recommend David Black's "Ruby for Rails". In fact, I'd love to see him extract a beginning Ruby book from it, for folks who aren't planning to do Rails... -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development