Is Ruby for Me?
The following article will answer some of the following questions:
What Kind of Language Is Ruby?
http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
The gem command allows you to interact with RubyGems. More on Gems:
http://guides.rubygems.org/what-is-a-gem/My first impressions: Ruby is a very powerful scripting language. seems simple enough to learn and implement quickly. You'll see results immediately and it enables us to create higher quality products for clients much faster (source: Leonard Teo). Some of the downsides are that you may not necessarily comprehend the full power of the tool-set you're using. Ruby makes complicated tasks fairly simple because Ruby has automated many things in the framework. In other words, you may lose a bit of base knowledge if you don't fully understand the shortcuts.
Stay tuned for more adventures...I'm planning a few quick Ruby sites for practice. I'm sure the hilarity will ensue!
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