From: JamesBritt <james@...>
Date: 2002-08-15T12:18:12+09:00
Subject: RE: A few newbie questions...

>
> In defence of Dave/Andy/OnlinePickAxe, I have learned Ruby from the ground
> up using Matz's Ruby in a Nutshell (book), OnlinePickAxe, and ri
> (astoundingly beautiful command-line reference into OnlinePickAxe
> material).  Like everyone else, I notice that OnlinePickAxe/ri "suffers"
> from not being able to trace down page references or view figures, but
> this is just not a big deal.  I'm not sure why, but it's just not a big
> deal.  I can always find the information I need, and that's not because
> I'm very experienced in Ruby - I'm not.
>
> Given a free language with free third-party documentation, we're doing
> very well indeed.

I'd also recommend the "search ruby-talk via Google groups" web form that
was posted here not too long ago.

James

>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>
>