Kevin et. al., matz's tutorial was what got me on my feet with ruby too. In case it's helpful to native English speakers, I've started to piece together an American English retranslation of it: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~slagell/ruby/uguide00.shtml It includes a rewrite of the eval.rb script with warning reports and automatic visual indentation (in imitation of the emacs ruby mode). -- Mark Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > Hi, > > In message "[ruby-talk:4657] Ruby tutorials for newbie" > on 00/08/30, Kevin Liang <kevin / vcn.bc.ca> writes: > | I've tried searching around for tutorials on ruby, but I haven't found > |much besides the Ruby/GTK+ one. Can someone direct me to where I could > |find some, esp if its aimed at newer programmers? Thanks > > Try http://www.math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~gotoken/ruby/ruby-uguide/ > > matz.