HELP.. wanna learn ruby

I am a second year degree student studying for on information systems
who is interested in programming and open source software solutions.. I
am looking for a ruby project to get involved in which could actually
use da fact that I am new to it.. or to put it simply a project where i
can get da hang of the language witout being a pain to other experienced
developers.. If ther is anyone who can help pls contact me thrugh the
forum or.. by my mail

thnaks

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have you tried doing projects from books -- a nice book to get into ruby and
rails that you develop an web site is from SitePoinr is:

*Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) *
by Patrick Lenz<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/105-3760114-0860431?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Patrick%20Lenz&gt;

check out the pickaxe book of course for ruby language stuff

*Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition
[ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) *
by Dave Thomas<Amazon.com,
Chad
Fowler<Amazon.com,
Andy
Hunt<Amazon.com

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On 6/28/07, Thilankka Marasinghe <thilankaster@gmail.com> wrote:

I am a second year degree student studying for on information systems
who is interested in programming and open source software solutions.. I
am looking for a ruby project to get involved in which could actually
use da fact that I am new to it.. or to put it simply a project where i
can get da hang of the language witout being a pain to other experienced
developers.. If ther is anyone who can help pls contact me thrugh the
forum or.. by my mail

thnaks

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well got the Apress.Beginning.Ruby.From.Novice.to.Professional book and
have a couple of sites that have guides and help.. I shall check the books u
sent over thank you for the reply by da way.. also I would like to
contribute towards ruby in some way because it seems like the right thing to
do..

thanks again
Thilankka

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On 6/29/07, crb <crblanco@gmail.com> wrote:

have you tried doing projects from books -- a nice book to get into ruby
and
rails that you develop an web site is from SitePoinr is:

*Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) *
by Patrick Lenz<
Amazon.com
>

check out the pickaxe book of course for ruby language stuff

*Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition
[ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) *
by Dave Thomas<
Amazon.com
>(Author),
Chad
Fowler<
Amazon.com
>(Author),
Andy
Hunt<
Amazon.com
>(Author)

On 6/28/07, Thilankka Marasinghe <thilankaster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am a second year degree student studying for on information systems
> who is interested in programming and open source software solutions.. I
> am looking for a ruby project to get involved in which could actually
> use da fact that I am new to it.. or to put it simply a project where i
> can get da hang of the language witout being a pain to other experienced
> developers.. If ther is anyone who can help pls contact me thrugh the
> forum or.. by my mail
>
> thnaks
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.
>