From: Samantha Date: 2007-02-06T12:00:07+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie Advice. ------=_Part_961_28139661.1170730801880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 2/5/07, Jeff Barczewski wrote: > > > Samantha, > > Welcome to Ruby!! You'll find one of the finest developer communities I've > even known. So when you get stuck, feel free to drop an email on the wire, > there seems to always be someone out there to help. Thanks so much, Jeff! That's exactly what I've gathered thus far. Gentoo Linux, that's a beautiful way to go!! Makes installing and upgrading > really wonderful! Good choice! Ya know, I started on Linux back in '99. I mostly played around with RedHat and ran a dual-boot system. I eventually went to straight Windows, and went back to having a dual boot in '05. I went to Mandrake, then to Fedora, and about six months ago decided to take the plunge into Gentoo. I must've had about six fresh installs in the first few weeks of using it, but I haven't had to do that in several months now. :) I have found that I've learned more in the six months of using Gentoo than I had in the several years of RedHat. I've even gotten brave enough to use ~x86 sources. :) Think of a project you would like to do and then see how you can tackle it > with Ruby. If you are wanting to build web applications then you have many > choices in Ruby, the most popular being Rails. For me Ruby and Rails > brings > all of the fun back into web application development after having done > things the hard way for so long (C++, Java, ...) :-) I'm researching stuff on YAML, as was suggested in a previous post and am going to work on the resume builder. At some point, I'm going to try and make an interactive one on Rails or maybe using a GUI, so that I can take input and then spit out a nice looking resume. Now that I have an idea of what to do, I'm really geeked. There are some great books out there, so check some of them out and you just > might come up with a bunch of ideas. Absolutely. I might be relocating to downstate Michigan (either Metro Detroit area or Ann Arbor) and I'm pretty stoked that there are user groups down there. I'm sure I can gleam some ideas there, too. Thanks again for the warm welcome! -- Samantha http://www.babygeek.org/ "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk." --Ralph Waldo Emerson ------=_Part_961_28139661.1170730801880--