From: "Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T11:40:08+09:00
Subject: Re: I need to learn...

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:32:34 -0700, Robert Hicks wrote:

> I would like to learn Ruby so I am looking at getting "Programming
> Ruby". I am also looking at converting stuff to RoR, so I was looking
> at getting "Agile Web Development with Rails".
> 
> Would those be good?

I'm still pretty new to Ruby myself and found the Rails book, well,
confusing. Rails is a framework built with Ruby and the book isn't aimed
at helping you with Ruby itself.

The first edition (not the second edition which covers 1.8) of
"Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide" is online: 

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

So you could take a look before you buy a copy (of the second edition) to
see what you think.

And look around ruby-doc.org, there's some very useful info there.

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