From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2008-03-08T12:42:37+09:00
Subject: Re: do-end-blocks

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Daniel Mendler <dmendler@wurzelteiler.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>  >
>  > Which documentation? Your code seems to be Rails code, and its true
>  > that the very minimal introduction to Ruby in Appendix A of _Agile Web
>  > Development with Rails_ doesn't seem to cover this difference in the
>  > section on blocks. If you are trying to learn Ruby and Rails
>  > simultaneously, I would suggest you to refer to a good general Ruby
>  > book along with AWDR; AWDR introduces Rails quite well, but its
>  > coverage of Ruby is vestigial. _Programming Ruby_, _The Ruby Way_,
>  > _Ruby for Rails_, and _The Ruby Programming Language_ are all good
>  > choices, each with its own particular strengths and weaknesses.
>  >
>  >
>  Thank you for the clarification concering the block! But my problem with
>  ruby is that there seems to exist no free specification. I really don't
>  want to buy such a book (I don't use awdr either). Please correct me if
>  there exist free specs except the api docs. I only found a lot of
>  examples and tutorials but most of my questions are quite special and
>  not covered in the tuts.
>

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