Former Rubyist Zed Shaw wrote an interesting book on Python.
Learn Python The Hard Way:
http://learnpythonthehardway.org
... and it's only $3 in PDF form.
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The Python Essential Reference by David Beazley is quite good, fairly
complete, and covers the differences between 2 and 3. The first couple
hundred pages are a tutorial that I felt gave me my sea legs, and then
there's a good deal of topic based reference material. Vaguely
reminiscent of the
I am trying to setup and run rails on my mac (10.6) following the
instructions at rubyonrails.org, but when i try to start the server it
fails complaining about some broken sqlite3 gem ? Has anyone else seen
this happen ?
jvictors-MacBook-Pro:hellorails jvictor$ rails server
Could not find gem
Juby, do yourself a favor, and install RVM
https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/
You would then do something like
$ rvm install 1.8.7
$ rvm use 1.8.7
$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
This will provide you with a Ruby install completely separate from Apple's,
and it makes it real easy to try out
