Ruby, Where do I start?

[tikal26]

so I read the stiky on how you learn to progarma and some epople suggest learning Ruby first and I keep on reding about how great Ruby on rails is, but oppsed to other post wher eI was given links to beginners pages or where to start ( Python) I have no idea where to go and start learning to program with ruby. Is there a webpage or book that you recommend to start learning Ruby

[tonyr]

Try these for starters:

http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/ (http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/)

http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/index.html (http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/index.html)
http://www.ruby.ch/tutorial/
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
http://perl.about.com/od/rubytutorials/

[mostwanted]

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

I have to say, I love this guide :)

His online Ruby console is also very handy:

http://tryruby.hobix.com/

[tikal26]

Thanks , enough to get me started

[asimon]

As a book to start learning Ruby I would recommend the 'Pickaxe', i.e. Programming Ruby (http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html). The first edition of this book is available for free at Programming Ruby 1st Ed. (http://www.rubycentral.com/book/) But if you can get your hands on it, the 2nd edition is preferable.

And a very good place for ruby related questions is the newsgroup comp.lang.ruby.general . There are some very knowledable people there and the most important: very friendly and helpful.