Mat Schaffer wrote: > On May 30, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Tim Becker wrote: >> answer. >> >> A number of good resources exist for learning Ruby. Premier among them >> is the book "Programming Ruby", and older edition of which is >> available online under a free license here: >> http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ >> >> The `home` of Ruby's documentation lives at: http://www.ruby-doc.org/ >> which is a great place to start as well. There's also "Why's >> (Poignant) Guide to Ruby" http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ if you're >> not into the typical programming texts... > > Don't forget "Learn to Program" http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ > titles/fr_ltp/ > I haven't read it myself, but it gets a lot of press as a great > beginner book. And it teaches you in ruby, so you'll be ready to go > once you get a handle on the basics. Thanks everyone, this helped much to check out these URL's. Will look into it. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.