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Exploring Ruby

January 5, 2006 by Rob Bazinet

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I started playing around with Ruby back in the fall to see what all the hype was about and learn a bit about a language that is not by Microsoft, not because I wanted to stay clear of Microsoft but to try something different.  As I mentioned before my career has been with mainly Microsoft products.

I picked up a copy of Programming Ruby from the Pragmatic Programmers.  This book seems to be the standard text on the subject.  I also downloaded the most recent build of Ruby from http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/.  I am currently running my tests on Windows an there is an installer for Ruby from Ruby-winms32.  Using the installer from Ruby-winms32 really makes the setup of Ruby on Windows very easy.

I am very used to the developer experience in Visual Studio.NET 2003/2005 and I am spoiled by it.  As I started to look at Ruby I knew I needed to also look at an environment to use to hopefully allow me to write Ruby code as well as do some of the things I am used to like integrated debugging and visual design of web pages.  I did a Google search and found that Eclipse has an add-in called RDT – Ruby Development Tools which seems to do most of what I am looking for, most importantly the debugging aspect.  I will try it out and report my findings.

For now I am writing Ruby code in Notepad2, which thanks to Scott Hanselman, has Ruby syntax highlighting.

I also found a nice Ruby tutorial and the ability to try Ruby online without installing Ruby.  This is great even to just to play around.

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