I once read that in learning Ruby, there is a "suck" stage where it is difficult to accomplish much of anything, followed by a "Wow" stage where the Ruby Nuby "sees the light". Any hints/suggestions by you Ruby pros for me to expedite my flounder through the "suck" stage, and achieve the Nirvana of "Wow"? I'm historically a Unix scripter, haven't spent a lot of time on languages like Perl or Python, and am finding the transition to Ruby rather painful. Any areas to concentrate on?? TPL -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.