From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-07-21T01:51:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Learning the fine points of Ruby

On Jul 20, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Ari Brown wrote:

> Hey all,
> I adore Ruby. I love everything about it. The debugging, the  
> community, the syntax....
>
> But my code sorta looks like VBScript - simple and generic. I have  
> seen some really great Ruby code - some I can understand, others I  
> just can't wrap my mind around. But how do you learn to think like  
> that?

By reading and writing lots of Ruby code.

> Can anyone recommend a book or site that teaches you to write Ruby  
> succinctly and rubily?

I know you have participated in Ruby Quiz, but have you really  
explored James' Ruby Quiz web site which makes a huge amount of  
interesting code available for you to read? It may be just what  
you're looking for.

Regards, Morton