My teacher suggested that I shouold learn ruby. I downloaded the software(but not the latest version). I dont know how to get it to work on my computer. I am running windows xp. If anyone can help me do this it would be great. I would also like to know the basics of ruby, if you know any online tutorials(good ones) that would be great.
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Jump to PostJust to let you know that I have been smitten by Ruby thanks to your ruby snippets. I downloaded the whole shmaltz including FxRuby from: http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxruby
I let you know how it works out. I like the syntax and am familiar with it from my Python …
Jump to PostGot FXRuby to go.
I installed a slightly older version
FXRuby-1[1].0.29-ruby181.exe
since I hadn't read up on the .gem file install. Your snippets work well and I found a load of FX code samples sort of hidden. On my machine under
D:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.2.2-mswin32/examples/bounce.rb
This included my old time …
Jump to PostRuby and Python are neat and easy to learn, a good replacement for the old interpreted basic language like Mbasic or Qbasic. If you want to go on with life, learn Csharp!
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