From: Shai Rosenfeld Date: 2007-07-17T21:44:46+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby tutorial Chad Perrin wrote: >"The Pickaxe" is the nickname for "Programming Ruby", because of the >pickaxe on the cover. It's similar to the way many O'Reilly books are >called by the name of the animal on the cover, like the "Camelid >Trilogy" >of Perl books (the Llama, the Alpaca, and the Camel). ;( nice to know ... i'll check into 'the ruby way'; .. what issues does this book cover? Robert Dober wrote: > On 7/17/07, Shai Rosenfeld wrote: >> guys can offer? > Well I somehow took the same path, but what really made me advance > was this list, which needs some time, (no doubt) > it is one of my favorits: > http://www.rubyquiz.com/ seems nice ... i'll definately check into this (already rss'ed) > Than there are incredible blogs around, I just think about James' and > Rick's but there are many more. does anyone have a list of specific addresses for the main best blogs around? > Sometimes reading the source helps too ;) definitely so ...thing is i was hoping to get some pdf / book / reading material that is readable with no computer; i got some spare time offline that i was hoping to use to get something printed that i could dig into.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.