From: Joon You <joon.you@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T22:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Learning the fine points of Ruby

On 2007-07-20 12:32:32 -0400, Ari Brown <ari@aribrown.com> said:

> 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?
> 
> Can anyone recommend a book or site that teaches you to write Ruby  
> succinctly and rubily?
> 
> thanks,
> aRi
> --------------------------------------------|
> If you're not living on the edge,
> then you're just wasting space.

Ruby Way by Hal Fulton is the book you need.  I, too came from C# and 
VB and this book really helped me tremendously.