From: Michael Guterl <mguterl@...>
Date: 2008-12-01T11:07:09+09:00
Subject: Re: new here on ruby-talk

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Richard <rich.japh@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, I am very interested in learning Ruby and wanted to say hi to the
> community here.
>
Hello and welcome!

> My background is lot of perl(means I spent lot of time on it but not an
> expert at all) and tiny bit of  c but also want to learn ruby and so far I
> have read "learn to program" by Chris pine(which btw, I immensely enjoyed;
> originally heard about the book from interview w/ Chris pine at perlcast
> which I really liked).
> I am internet freak and stay connected at all time.( I am very active on
> posting as well ).
> I just got done ordering "Developing facebook platform applications w/
> rails" and "Agile Web Development with rails" and looking to poke around the
> ruby more.
>
> My question is however is rub-talk mailing list gear towards newbie like me
> or is there another channel that I should apply on?
>
This mailing list is fine for any level of rubyist.  Just be sure to
put your Rails specific questions on the rubyonrails mailing list,
they'll generally be ignored here.

Regards,
Michael Guterl