From: Damjan Rems Date: 2010-05-03T20:42:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Main working window for Ruby is DOS? Kaye Ng wrote: > Thanks guys. I want to make a program for the company I'm working for. > It's a manufacturing company. Anyway, are you guys saying that I should > download Netbean or any similar software and make it work with Ruby so I > could come up with the program I need? > > Currently the company is using a program developed from Clipper. It's > really old, like since the 80's. I want to make a similar program using > Ruby. I know it's possible, but I'm thinking when they made the program > with Clipper, surely they didn't have to integrate the Clipper with > another software like Netbean? > > Thanks for your patience. How much patience do you have? From your words I can conclude that you haven't programmed (much) in any programing language yet. You have about half year of time to make your first usable program. If you don't do it in that time, then programming is probably not the best job decision for you. It is good that you have an example to follow. At first steps don't bother to run super duper IDE. Write your first programs with simple editor that is at your hand. (notepad, gedit, kedit or even vi, nano if you don't use GUI). In a time you will found out that this is not enough for your needs and will want to have something more sophisticated. I use Netbeans because it runs the same on Linux and Windows. Don't try to learn GUI programing at start. And (sadly) there are probably better languages to learn GUI programming than Ruby. When you will discover rails, you won't need any GUI programing at all. And away are all the problems regarding installing programs on many workstations. Everything runs from single server. All your users need is web browser. I was Clipper programmer for more than 10 years and when I discovered Ruby I just loved it. Clipper and ruby share lots of things in common. No declarations, simple and clear syntax, short programs, codeblocks are few of them. Ruby is fantastic language to start with. You write some code and just run it. No compilation, no independences. Programs run unchanged on any platform. Start learning here from http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ include http://www.ruby-doc.org/docbar/toc_tut.html in your browser and happy programming. by TheR -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.