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I’m not by any stretch of the imagination an early adopter of technology. Nor am I (mostly) an old stick-in-the-mud who thinks that all programming should be done in COBOL. I love new technology but prefer other people to work out the bugs and niggles before I can use them reliably as tools.

So it is with some pleasure that I’ve decided to take the plunge and begin studying the Ruby programming language. Ruby has been around for 15 years now so the foundations are solid. Many rave about its simplicity, utility and natural-looking syntax.

My goal is to learn the lanugage by porting an existing application (the food journal written in PHP that I recently used to play with Zend Framework) first to the Ruby language, then to the web application framework Rails.

As usual, I embark on this project by reading a manual!

Update 12-Jul-2009: Browse the code on Github
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