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> Can anybody point me to an on-line minimal formal
> syntax for ruby, so as to not rely on the chatty tutors. > We want a train-time-table format; not a novel.

matz wrote a very concise book. Ruby in a Nutshell (http://oreilly.com/
catalog/9780596002145)