>I blogged about attending a local Ruby users group meeting last night, and my Ruby newbie experiences so far...
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>http://therealmattslay.blogspot.com/2010/05/ruby-on-rails-forever.html

Hi Matt,

I am looking at Ruby on Rails after a conversation with a friend. He recommended "Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails" and I purchased the 4th edition beta ebook plus printed version which I wholeheartedly recommend to you. Not too simple not too hard. Gets you confortable quickly.

The MVC approach is brilliant and I love "convention over configuration" so this may be the tool I've been looking to do web apps. Crossing my fingers it isn't an optical illusion.

Still undecided about the IDE, but am leaning to NetBeans IDE as you did. Are you happy with that choice? I was unable to download Aptana Studio.

Alex