From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T07:13:33+09:00
Subject: Re: New to ruby

On 11.12.2007 21:54, Jari Williamsson wrote:
> Chris Daves wrote:
>> Hi i'm completely new to ruby but have some experience in java. First
>> thing first, whats the best version of ruby to download and where from?
>> I have downloaded ruby fxri for windows. Also i have tried to make a
>> small program on this type of ruby but can't find out how to compile it.
>> I can make a puts statedment work in the real time area and i have scite
>> text editor. but i am trying to get ruby to read in a file of references
>> and then just output them same.
> 
> As a beginner on Windows, I guess you first want the one-click installer.

Not necessarily.  I make good use of cygwin's Ruby package.

gvim also nicely supports Ruby.

Kind regards

	robert