Brian's book is really good. Some other resources: # no list is complete without why's Poignant guide to Ruby: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
# his interactive ruby in your browser lessons: http://tryruby.hobix.com/ The Ruby Way by Hal Fulton The Ruby Programming Language (Oreilly) by David Flanagan and Matz himself Collection of Ruby related blogs/feed: http://www.rubycorner.com Gateway to Ruby and Rails mailing lists: http://www.ruby-forum.com/ I also second the idea of reading code and unit tests, there are so many open source ruby projects available on github. Charley Baker blog: http://blog.charleybaker.org/ Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Paul Rogers <paul.rog...@shaw.ca> wrote: > im surprised no one has mentioned Brian Maricks book, > Everyday Scripting with > Ruby<http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Everyday-Scripting-with-Ruby/Brian-Marick/e/9780977616619> > Paul > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Wesley Chen <cjq....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The book: Pragmatic Bookshelf, Programming Ruby 2nd is really good for >> Ruby studying. >> >> Thanks. >> Wesley Chen. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:18 AM, George <george.sand...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Thanks for the links, Tiffany! >>> >>> On Apr 3, 9:02 am, Tiffany Fodor <tcfo...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> > Hey Bret! >>> > >>> > For some this may be a little remedial, but I really liked Chris >>> > Pine's 'Learn to Program' tutorial. He starts out assuming you >>> > haven't ever written any code at all. I hadn't written any code for >>> > several years and this got me up and running in a couple of days. >>> > >>> > http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ >>> > >>> > Of course, there's lots more to learn after that. I think the >>> > Pragmatic Programmers 'Pickaxe' book is the most popular with this >>> > group: >>> > >>> > http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ >>> > >>> > -Tiffany >>> > >>> > On Apr 3, 9:45 am, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > > People who are new to Watir often need to learn Ruby to be effective. >>> > > What resources should we recommend for this? What books, websites, >>> blogs >>> > > or videos have you found to be helpful? Online training? >>> > >>> > > -- >>> > > Bret Pettichord >>> > > CTO, WatirCraft LLC,www.watircraft.com >>> > > Lead Developer, Watir,www.watir.com >>> > > Blog,www.io.com/~wazmo/blog <http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog> >>> > > Twitter,www.twitter.com/bpettichord >>> > >>> > > Watir Training: Portland/Beaverton April >>> 16-17www.watircraft.com/training >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
