Ruby Newbie looking for advice ...

[Meisenzahl, Christopher1]

I've tinkered w/ Ruby a bit in the past (maybe 1-2 years ago) and even
bought the Thomas/Hunt Programming Ruby book at the time.

Unfortunately I never quite picked it up well. I want to use it for text
processing and report creation, things that many would use Perl for. I
would also like to use it to manipulate IE for some testing and
automation tasks. I'm using Ruby on Windows and perhaps my OS X Tiger
iBook. Using Ruby revision 182-15 at the moment if that makes any sense.

1.
In addition to going back to the Thomas/Hunt book, can you recommend a
good Ruby tutorial?

2.
Where can I find the latest revision of the Ruby FAQ? I'd like to read
that completely before going much farther.


3.
Anything else I should be sure to check out?


Thanks very much in advance!

Chris




Christopher J. Meisenzahl CSTE
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[James Britt]

I've tinkered w/ Ruby a bit in the past (maybe 1-2 years ago) and even
bought the Thomas/Hunt Programming Ruby book at the time.

Unfortunately I never quite picked it up well. I want to use it for text
processing and report creation, things that many would use Perl for. I
would also like to use it to manipulate IE for some testing and
automation tasks. I'm using Ruby on Windows and perhaps my OS X Tiger
iBook. Using Ruby revision 182-15 at the moment if that makes any sense.

1.
In addition to going back to the Thomas/Hunt book, can you recommend a
good Ruby tutorial?
http://www.ruby-doc.org/gettingstarted/


2.
Where can I find the latest revision of the Ruby FAQ? I'd like to read
that completely before going much farther.
http://www.rubygarden.org/faq/main/


3.
Anything else I should be sure to check out?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/

Poke around.


James
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[Michael Vondung]

In addition to going back to the Thomas/Hunt book, can you recommend a
good Ruby tutorial?

A bit dated by now, but "Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days" by Mark Slagell is
pretty good. It may be "too basic" for you, though I found it helpful (but
I don't have any solid background in programming). When you're through with
this book, there's Hal Fulton's "The Ruby Way". Both were published by
Sams.

M.

 

[paul.rogers]

for testing web apps with IE, try watir - www.watir.com

Paul