From: "J. Cooper" <nefigah@...>
Date: 2008-06-19T03:23:26+09:00
Subject: Re: What was YOUR first Ruby Project

Lloyd Linklater wrote:
> Eric Hegwer 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?
> 
> I have written many snippets and fell in love with the language but I 
> have been absolutely unsuccessful at writing a usable program.  I write 
> programs in Delphi and more recently in Java, but I always have a UI to 
> work with in one form or another (no pun intended).  Putting Ruby 
> snippets together into something usable has turned out to be impossible 
> for me.  I am clearly missing something visceral but there it is.  As 
> much as I adore the fabulous language, to that extent I am disappointed 
> that I cannot use it for anything.  Very sad but there it is.

Depends on what you write programs for! I started with Rails, and 
obviously there are other web frameworks out there, so you have plenty 
of chances to write stuff in that realm.

I don't actually use Rails anymore though. I currently use Ruby for 
utility scripts, image manipulation with RMagick, and I'm even writing a 
game in it using Ruby Gosu.

You may enjoy trying out JRuby and using NetBeans and Monkey Bars to 
harness Java's UI building capabilities, but still get to do the actual 
code in Ruby.
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