About Ruby

ruby-talk
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Hello,
I am with Ruby in the last 6 months. But I have some specific question to all of you.

  1. I am in West Bengal (India). I don’t find a single Ruby book in any book shop. What is the problem? Without a single book it is not possible to learn a language. I have to work 10-12 hours to solve a very simple problem in Ruby/Tk just lack of document and books.

  2. I think just 10-15 people in India knows Ruby. Whenever I ask somebody about Ruby he don’t understand what the Ruby is all about.

  3. In the big projects anybody use Ruby? If it is so good (and surely it is) then why it don’t compete with Java, C++ etc.?

I want to be with Ruby but I need some specific path for it. I hope everybody will participate in this question.

Thanking you,
Sabyasachi Mustafi

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I think there are more than 10-15 people using Ruby in India.
Actually, one of the few books available in English has been written by an
Indian.
Check “Making Use of Ruby” by Suresh Mahadevan (ISBN 047121972X)
If you visit amazon.co.uk, you will find other books on ruby under
“Customers who shopped for this item also shopped for” from:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/047121972X/qid=1080300895/br=3-7/br_lfncs_b_7/026-9085793-4299660
I am not affiliated in any way with amazon and haven’t read this
particular book.
I have read good things about the Sams 21 days book.
Besides, “Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide” aka. The
Pickaxe is available online. Many sites mirror the book. It’s definitely
the first book to read. The Ruby Way will probably be very helpful as
well. It has been for me.

Hth.

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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:28:13 +0900, Sabyasachi Mustafi wrote:

Hello,
I am with Ruby in the last 6 months. But I have some specific question to all of you.

  1. I am in West Bengal (India). I don’t find a single Ruby book in any book shop. What is the problem? Without a single book it is not possible to learn a language. I have to work 10-12 hours to solve a very simple problem in Ruby/Tk just lack of document and books.

  2. I think just 10-15 people in India knows Ruby. Whenever I ask somebody about Ruby he don’t understand what the Ruby is all about.

  3. In the big projects anybody use Ruby? If it is so good (and surely it is) then why it don’t compete with Java, C++ etc.?

I want to be with Ruby but I need some specific path for it. I hope everybody will participate in this question.

Thanking you,
Sabyasachi Mustafi

3

Hey

I’m Indian =D and I use ruby. Also I work on a relatively large Ruby project
ORE - O Ruby Editor for Gnome (well just an IDE based on Ruby/Gtk+, and please
hold them re-inventing the wheel flames regarding the IDE). (Note2: well ORE
isn’t that big a project right now, but will be as time goes by)

So I would say that Ruby is definitely good for big projects, though people
tend to shy away from it for big project initially. Hell! IMO Ruby’s dynamicity
helps solve some pretty tough problems very easily as compared to relatively
static languages like Java/C++.

Cheers!
Archit

P.S. ORE’s website is at http://ore.rubyforge.org/ (cheap attempt at project
marketing =D)

“Sabyasachi Mustafi” sabymus@rediffmail.com writes:

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Hello,
I am with Ruby in the last 6 months. But I have some specific question to all of you.

  1. I am in West Bengal (India). I don’t find a single Ruby book in any book shop. What is the problem? Without a single book it is not possible to learn a language. I have to work 10-12 hours to solve a very simple problem in Ruby/Tk just lack of document and books.

  2. I think just 10-15 people in India knows Ruby. Whenever I ask somebody about Ruby he don’t understand what the Ruby is all about.

  3. In the big projects anybody use Ruby? If it is so good (and surely it is) then why it don’t compete with Java, C++ etc.?

I want to be with Ruby but I need some specific path for it. I hope everybody will participate in this question.

Thanking you,
Sabyasachi Mustafi

4

Hi.

Xavier wrote:

Besides, “Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide” aka. The
Pickaxe is available online. Many sites mirror the book. It’s definitely
the first book to read. The Ruby Way will probably be very helpful as
well. It has been for me.

Online: http://www.rubycentral.com/book/

bye
Dirk Einecke

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Hi Sabyasachi,

There are more than 30 Indians I know uses Ruby.

A few books are avaiable online. One by Dava Thomas is for free :slight_smile: (Thanks to Andy & Dave)

Help and is missing. Absurd. I like to explore myself so I rarely ask. But it has never taken much time to know when needed.

I use irc chat room on freenode #ruby-lang

There are people there to help you.

Now as an Indian to another. Do not crib. Help others. How many times have you replied to quires from others? All we do is ask and forget it. If you do not help how can you expect to be helped.

regards,
rolo
Rohit Lodha

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-----Original Message-----
From: archit@dhcp52.moberg [mailto:archit@dhcp52.moberg]On Behalf Of
Archit Baweja
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:06 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: About Ruby

Hey

I’m Indian =D and I use ruby. Also I work on a relatively large Ruby project
ORE - O Ruby Editor for Gnome (well just an IDE based on Ruby/Gtk+, and please
hold them re-inventing the wheel flames regarding the IDE). (Note2: well ORE
isn’t that big a project right now, but will be as time goes by)

So I would say that Ruby is definitely good for big projects, though people
tend to shy away from it for big project initially. Hell! IMO Ruby’s dynamicity
helps solve some pretty tough problems very easily as compared to relatively
static languages like Java/C++.

Cheers!
Archit

P.S. ORE’s website is at http://ore.rubyforge.org/ (cheap attempt at project
marketing =D)

“Sabyasachi Mustafi” sabymus@rediffmail.com writes:

Hello,
I am with Ruby in the last 6 months. But I have some specific question to all of you.

  1. I am in West Bengal (India). I don’t find a single Ruby book in any book shop. What is the problem? Without a single book it is not possible to learn a language. I have to work 10-12 hours to solve a very simple problem in Ruby/Tk just lack of document and books.

  2. I think just 10-15 people in India knows Ruby. Whenever I ask somebody about Ruby he don’t understand what the Ruby is all about.

  3. In the big projects anybody use Ruby? If it is so good (and surely it is) then why it don’t compete with Java, C++ etc.?

I want to be with Ruby but I need some specific path for it. I hope everybody will participate in this question.

Thanking you,
Sabyasachi Mustafi