From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T20:01:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Questions

On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 12:55, ghost wrote:
> Apologies if there is a FAQ I missed or this is out of line here, but I 
> have a couple of Ruby questions if you please:
> 1) Is there any definitive online tutorials available?
> (I've been to IBM, RubyCentral, Rubycookbook, etc)

I'd recommend the pickaxe-book.  You'll find it at
www.pragmaticprogramer.com I _think_

> 2) I'm coming from PHP, so this everything is an object kind of throws me. 
> How would you go about pulling info from STDIN and storing that in a 
> variable? Does that then become an object in itself?
>

Yes.. normally a string-object

: [bagfors@detrius]$ ; irb
irb(main):001:0> str = gets
hello world
"hello world\n"
irb(main):002:0> p str
"hello world\n"
nil
irb(main):003:0> p str.type
String
nil


/Erik 
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