* Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > I'm thinking of learning Ruby - is there an easy way of running Perl and > Python code/libraries from Ruby? I've googled and browsed manuals in > Dymocks Library ^H^H^H Bookshop, can't seem to find an answer.
on a quick google, this is the closest thing I could find for perl: http://www.yoshidam.net/perl_en.txt again - I've never used it and haven't read through it - but I guess it's a start for you :) > Reason I ask is that I want to learn Ruby for Ruby on Rails, but there's > so much good stuff in the existing Perl and Python libraries/cpan. true - though if you're using Rails I'd recommend you check if a library already exists in Rails first (a given, really). > (Yes I know about Python/Django, but Rails seems to have better > doco/manuals at the moment). Absolutely - and it's a dream to work with for web-app development. Besides-which, if you're using Rails, you at least know that most fo the Ruby community is behind Rails. Compare with the current joke that there are more web-development frameworks than keywords in Python ;) Cheers, Taryn -- Let there be lights! http://fiatlux.webcentre.co.nz/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
