From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-11-20T12:11:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Learning Ruby

Daniel Carrera wrote:

> 1)  What is a good resource for learning Ruby in general?  Is there a Ruby
> equivalent to "Learning Perl"?

"Programming Ruby", by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

> 2)  Where does Ruby lie in the interpreted vs compiled range?

My understanding (which may be way off) is that the code is parsed into 
a syntax tree and that the tree is then walked -- it's never translated 
into bytecode, though. So it's somewhere past interpreted but short of 
what you described for Perl. Note that future plans for Ruby are to move 
in that direction, however.