by Chris Pine
The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, 2005
ISBN: 09766940

If you don't have (or know any) children, and you're an experienced programmer, then you may want to stop reading this review now. But, if you have kids who you'd like to introduce to programming, or you're someone who wants to dip their toes into the programming waters, or if you've never seen the Ruby programming language, read on.

When I first got a copy of this book, I put it on the bottom of my list of reading. The book is small, only 149 pages. There are no Nobel Prize winning, earth shattering innovations or discoveries contained within its pages. But the book may hold the key to unlocking a young person's imagination and introducing them to a fun world of programming where there are no limits to the things they can do.

Computing programs affect everyone today. More people are trying their hands at some sort of scripting or programming language, and computer programming has becom

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Introduction Welcome (02:31) What this Tutorial Will Cover (02:40) What Ra

　　学习一种语言，我想最应该先了解的就是怎么去搭建这种语言的运行环境。如果语言的运行环境我们知道了，再找到符合以往开发习惯的IDE工具，再 看一看入门的例子，再学一学语言相关的知识。这样的时候，一种语言就应该开始入门了。其它只要坚持学习修炼，加以时日，撑握一种语言只是时间的问题。我的 ruby环境是基于linux环境的。windows下没有试过。

　　 一、运行环境:

　　1，安装ruby语言解释环境

　　apt-get install ruby rdoc ri

　　安装完成后，可以检查一下安装结果

　　ruby -v

　　将显示你当前安装的ruby版本信息。

　　2，安装Ruby语言软件包管理系统(Package Management System)RubyGems

　　下载http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz

　　解压后从命令行进入rubygems-0.8.11

　　执行下面的命令:

　　ruby setup.rb

　　gem install rubygems-update

　　3，安装rails框架

　　sudo apt-get install rails

　　到这一步，ruby的运行环境就搭完了。

　　 二、开发环境