Hi -- On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Tom Allison wrote: > Well, I don't have that exact background but I've always found books like the > typical "21 days" and "dummies" are mostly useless. no pain, no gain... :) I wrote three of the "days" in "Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days", and I went out of my way to make them excruciatingly painful, so you can safely read it :-) But seriously... that book did get a lot of "not a typical book of its genre" remarks, for which I take a mini-bow but mostly give a big nod to Mark Slagell, the chief author. David -- David A. Black dblack / wobblini.net "Ruby for Rails", from Manning Publications, coming April 2006! http://www.manning.com/books/black