From: Doug H <doug00@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T23:17:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_

I'd recommend the exact opposite.  If you ignore the libraries and GUI
toolkits, the book is virtually useless.  Most people are using ruby to
develop _applications_, not to learn programming for programming's
sake.