Hey Chris,

I'm another "ruby newbie".  The book you are waiting for, which I also have, is available in html form at www.rubycentral.com and has a pretty gentle tutorial.  Although it wasn't really written for beginners, "Refactoring" by Martin Fowler kept me up all night thinking about the craft and got me into automated unit testing and extreme programming.  .  BTW, I saw someone has already built a unit testing module for ruby, which is key. 

Regards,

Wayne
 

On Fri, 11 May 2001, "Chris Montgomery" wrote:

> 
> Although most of the discussion about Ruby and web apps (started as a result
> of my question) are now way over my head, I am continuing to enjoy the
> posts.
> 
> Now, I have another question....while eagerly awaiting my recently ordered
> book on Ruby to arrive, I am wondering about OOP in general. Never having
> attacked OO programming before, what do you folks recommend as a precursor
> before tackling Ruby regarding getting up to speed on OOP? Is Ruby easy
> enough to pick up for someone with no OOP background? If not, how/where do
> you recommend one start to learn OOP before taking on Ruby (books, web
> sites, mailing lists, courses, etc.)?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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