On 18 Sep 2002 10:37:15 -0700, gmnotyet / yahoo.com (J Hall) wrote:

>but was looking for something
>more tutorail in nature

Different publisher and awful title, but Mark Slagell's "Teach
yourself Ruby in 21 days" is a "tutorial-type-of" book targeted at
mostly beginners. I haven't seen the two books that you mentioned, but
Mark's paperback might be worth a look. (I most definitely enjoyed it
and it was the book that greatly helped me to get into Ruby -- but
unlike many here, I do not have a perl/python/java background.)

-M.
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