From: Hilary Bailey <my77elephants@...>
Date: 2011-01-23T13:44:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Totally lost in learning Ruby

Stefano Crocco wrote in post #976481:
> On Friday 21 January 2011 19:13:47 Hilary Bailey wrote:
>> teachers which will hold educational institutions accountable for the
>> Tk in advance,
>>
>> Hilary
>
> First, you don't need a compiler to use ruby. Ruby is an interpreted
> language,
> which means that to execute a program written in ruby, you pass it to
> the
> source file (which is a plain text file) to the ruby interpreter which
> will
> take care of interpreting it and executing it. There's no compilation
> step
> involved in this, which is the reason you found no reference to a
> compiler.
>
> As for books, you can try with the first edition of Programming Ruby,
> which is
> freely availlable online at
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/.
> It's written for an old version of ruby, but it still is useful. There
> are new
> editions for new versions of ruby (edition 2 for ruby 1.8 and edition 3
> for
> ruby 1.9), but you have to buy them.
>
> Regarding supporting software, that depends which operating system you
> use.
>
> If you're on Windows, then there's the RubyInstaller project
> (http://rubyinstaller.org/) which provides the basic tool needed to work
> with
> ruby (I'm not completely sure about what it provides, as I don't use
> Windows
> myself).
>
> If you're on Linux, then ruby is surely included in your distribution.
>
> If you're on another operating system, then I don't know what your
> options
> are, but surely there's someone else who knows.
>
> I hope this helps
>
> Stefano

Hi Stefano,
Thanks for such speedy response. The Rubi community is really 
impressive. I was under the impression that after having some programing 
language skilss and with some training I would be able to put together a 
# of applications and build a program computer program. I thought that 
just like how individuals could use some of Apple's apps, put them 
together then build a game, I believed that eventually this could be 
done with Ruby and its supportive/compatible applications.

Now facing this reality, would it help if I used Linux instead of 
Windows 7?

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