Weirdest Ruby guide EVAR
Do yourself a favor and look at Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby.
Do it, now! Take a look even if you are not interested in Ruby, or don’t have any clue about programming languages (quoting a current colleague studying Psychology and working only parttime in my engineering department: “I’m happy that i’ve learned something proper…”).
It is really very strange, funny, disturbing… for a text teaching you a programming language. Bruce Eckel, way to go!