From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2008-06-17T20:33:03+09:00
Subject: Re: What was YOUR first Ruby Project

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Eric Hegwer <ehegwer@mac.com> wrote:
> I though it be cool to hear what your first experience with Ruby was.
> Was it a job, or just a fun (cough, cough)  side project that you
> decided to take on?
>
> For me, Ruby is my entrance to the world of programming.  My first and
> only computer class was as a HS sophomore in 1986.
>
> And as for my first project, I'm fighting my way through a fourm
> tutorial written for 1.6 (I'm riding 2.02).

My first Ruby was a Rails project to show system status, similar to Webmin.
I wanted to do the project in Perl/Mason and my boss insisted on PHP, so I did
a detailed comparison of the languages and ended up choosing Ruby!

Then I spent some time replacing every Perl script I had ever written with Ruby.
Hundreds of lines of ugly became a few lines of beautiful. Now I just see Perl
as an opportunity to write some Ruby.

Les