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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">As mentioned in my previous post, this blog will record my progress of learning Ruby and Ruby On Rails. I remembering reading somewhere that to use Ruby On Rails, one needs to know the Ruby programming language.

I started off by making a search for "Ruby Quick Start" on the Google search engine. This returned me a list of around 15 sites but unluckily I could not find anything that could get me</div><p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://quickruby.blogspot.com/2005/10/finding-ruby.html">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerHaving come from a Java background, I thought these series of slides - 10 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby, would be useful. I went through them but did not follow much, for now. I shall come back to this later.

So how do I get started with Ruby? An online version of the first edition of Programming Ruby -</div><p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://quickruby.blogspot.com/2005/10/ways-to-run-ruby.html">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby - Open a new DOS window and type irb --simple-prompt A prompt appears as they should not be defined in a method - more of this later). Ruby lets you alter the value of a constant, although this will generate a warning message.


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Technorati Tags: Ruby Nuts and</div><p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://quickruby.blogspot.com/2005/10/ruby-nuts-and-bolts.html">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby - Open a new DOS window and type irb --simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Which text editor should I use for Ruby? In your Ruby installation there is a built-in text editor 'SciTE'</div><p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://quickruby.blogspot.com/2005/10/text-editors-and-ides-for-ruby.html">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby - Open a new DOS window and type irb --simple-prompt A prompt appears as

Loops like the while are available. Again, the example below illustrates the same.# Loops
var = 0
while var < 10
puts var.to_s
var += 1
end
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Blogs linking<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://quickruby.blogspot.com/2005/11/simple-constructs-in-ruby.html">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby - Open a new DOS window and type irb --simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2Constructs like the if else and whileToday, we shall explore</div><p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://quickruby.blogspot.com/2005/11/some-methods-in-ruby.html">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby - Open a new DOS window and type irb --simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2Constructs like the if else and whileSome methods in</div><p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://quickruby.blogspot.com/2005/11/arrays-in-ruby.html">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby - Open a new DOS window and type irb --simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2Constructs like the if else and whileSome methods in</div><p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://quickruby.blogspot.com/2005/11/writing-ones-own-methods-in-ruby.html">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby - Open a new DOS window and type irb --simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2Constructs like the if else and whileSome methods in</div><p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://quickruby.blogspot.com/2005/11/writing-ones-own-class-in-ruby.html">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby - Open a new DOS window and type irb --simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2Constructs like the if else and whileSome methods in</div><p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://quickruby.blogspot.com/2005/11/ruby-on-rails.html">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>