From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2009-11-05T06:11:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Help (was Re: [ANN] November Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting)

James Nathan wrote:
> James Britt,
> � 
> I am very new to Ruby programs, I am having a very hard time getting it all up loaded to my computer.

First, as a matter of etiquette, please do not reply to a post to start 
a different topic.  It's called "hijacking" and it's a bad practice.

If you need help with something, start a new topic with a short but 
clear subject line.


> it seems that most or all the files are zipped. is their anyway that you can help me out with this? I have been reading the Beginning Ruby and the Beginning Rails. but� I am not sure what else to do. please help!

Those are poor books to start with.

Try The Ruby Programming Language, by David Flanagan & Yukihiro 
Matsumoto.   Or maybe Programming Ruby, by Dave Thomas.

As for installing Ruby, there may be pointers here: 
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

If you need more help, please post a new message with specific questions 
and details of your computer; don't reply to this message.


James