From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-04T03:56:44+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9.1?

Hi --

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Zayd Abdullah wrote:

> So since these changes have been made, will us noobs be hurting ourselves
> starting off learning 1.8.6? Books to learn from are teaching from 1.8.

If you can wait about 1.5 months or so you can read "The Well-Grounded
Rubyist" (already available in early-access PDF), which is about
1.9.1. See http://www.manning.com/black2. Meanwhile there's a ton of
stuff you can learn in 1.8.6 that hasn't changed, or where the changes
are likely to make more sense to you anyway (like "abc"[0] being "a"
rather than 97).

See also my recent blog posts on 1.8/1.9:

http://dablog.rubypal.com/2009/1/14/10-things-to-be-aware-of-in-moving-to-ruby-1-9
http://dablog.rubypal.com/2009/1/16/son-of-10-things-to-be-aware-of-in-ruby-1-9


David

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