From: James Nathan Date: 2011-04-12T22:27:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Hello --0-467788094-1302614873=:99690 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No, I will try another program to learn to write a program. Ruby is just to= hard to download, and to work with. thanks for all your help and understan= ding. James Nathan --- On Mon, 4/11/11, James Nathan wrote: From: James Nathan Subject: Re: Hello To: "ruby-talk ML" Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 10:18 PM I will just give up on Ruby and Ruby on Rails for now=20 James Nathan --- On Mon, 4/11/11, Vincent Manis wrote: From: Vincent Manis Subject: Re: Hello To: "ruby-talk ML" Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 5:55 PM On 2011-04-11, at 16:50, jake kaiden wrote: >=A0 these two are the ruby and rails base class api's, which will give you= =20 > information on the built in classes and how to use them: > ruby-doc.org/core/ > api.rubyonrails.org/ >=20 >=A0 the "pragmatic guide" is also very good, and has examples and=20 > tutorials: > http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ >=20 >=A0 this is also a decent introduction tutorial: > http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/ruby/basictutorial.htm >=20 >=A0 and, of course - there is my personal favorite, the "poignant-guide": > http://www.thinkingaloud.net/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby/ These are all excellent books, and for those who really want to grok Ruby,= =A0 the Poignant Guide is excellent. But for somebody who is brand new to R= uby, and to programming in general, I'd still recommend Ullman's Ruby: Visu= al Quickstart Guide as a really good place to start. It does things like wa= lking you through installing Ruby, for example.=20 -- vincent --0-467788094-1302614873=:99690--