>>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
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>Hi Matt,
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Alex

I've heard Apatana development is dead sue to a one-man team who is focused on other things. So far, NetBeans has served me well. There is also something called Komodo that is a free multi-language IDE thingy.