[amazonify]0596529864::text::::Learning Ruby[/amazonify] Author: Michael Fitzgerald ISBN 10: 0-596-52986-4 ISBN 13: 9780596529864 Reviewer: Matt Polito Learning Ruby is exactly what the title says. This book offers a great ‘introduction’ to Ruby as a fun, powerful language. Now I would say that as a Ruby user, I’m not quite advanced but not really a beginner. I would have to say that this book is definitely catered to someone very new to the Ruby world. The books author, Michael Fitzgerald, uses a very easy to read style of writing that, to me, made this read far easier than...

Yesterday I gave a small presentation on migrations in Rails 2.0 for the Chicago Ruby group. It went fairly well I think. Not being the most in depth presentation… I hope that someone got something out of it. I think that the new Rake tasks were a little more interesting for the group to learn about than the actual migrations. Here is the slideshow ( I really suck at Powerpoint) and I’m sure it will also be available at the Chicago Ruby downloads page. Update: You can now view the slideshow here, courtesy of Scribd’s own ‘iPaper’.

I stumbled across this site the other day… well actually a long time ago, but just the other day I found it again because of a link for a free online ruby course.  Figured ‘what the hell’ I’ve got nothing to lose.  So it starts in the second week of January right before I start my other ‘brick and mortar’ courses.  We will have to see how that goes.  I am excited though.  It is nice to see that he has a defined course outline and suggested timeline for getting things done.  In the past I have taken an online course but it didn’t...