Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm giving an in-company presentation about a rather advanced project my 
> team has been busy with over the last few months. Ruby has been chosen 
> for one of the reference implementations. However, most of my collegaes 
> are not familiar with Ruby.
> 
> So what I am looking for is a brief and concise "mini tutorial" or 
> "quick start" for Ruby. One which I can distribute among the 
> participants before the presentation, so they can get quickly aqainted 
> with the language. So ideally, it shoudl be only a page of three,at most 
> four, covering the essential aspects of Ruby.
> 
> Does anyone know if and where I can a tutorial like that?

You may find some useful presentations here.

http://rubyforge.org/docman/?group_id=251
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/GSWR/
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ruby1.html


James