Ruby rocks!

OK, so I feel like I'm just jumping onto this Ruby bandwagon head first! I really dig what I've seen so far (and it's been a LONG time since I've been excited about anything programming-wise) so I'm working my way through tutorials and hoping to get onto Ruby on Rails after I'm sufficiently schooled in Ruby. I understand that I don't need Ruby to do Rails, or even need a lot of Ruby to do Ruby on Rails, but I think it is a rather cool language.

I did a lot of Java work in school and liked the OO approach and understood what was going on, but I think Ruby looks SO much better. And all my Java learning really helps... it's very cool.

So, here's the tutorial I'm working through right now: Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide http://www.rubycentral.com/book/index.html and if I find anything else good, I'll post it on here too. W00t for motivation!

Still here... Ruby is the thing this year

So, I haven't changed anything with my tech blogging yet. And I haven't been in Linux for a few months now. But tonight, I (finally!) managed to install Ruby so I can play around with it a little bit. Here is the link that helped me finally succeed!

http://www.rubyforums.com/showthread.php?t=16

I just followed the example in the first post (logged in as the superuser) and for my fifth and final attempt the thing actually worked! Woot!