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The chat represents what exactly happened between me and my friend.
The idea to write out the chat is inspired by John's post here
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/ruote-and-flow/
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# Ruby 4 Rails

## About this presentation

`FRIEND`: Hey Simone, I want to start learning Rails.

`ME`: Really?

`FRIEND`: You know, I have been working in PHP and Symfony for a while and now I want to try something new.

`ME`: That's cool.

`FRIEND`: Could you help me studying Rails?

`ME`: Sure. But if you really want to learn Rails, you need to start from Ruby.

`FRIEND`: I worked with PHP and several other languages. Is Ruby really that difficult?

`ME`: Learning the Ruby syntax is not that difficult. Thinking like a Rubyist is the real challenge. If you really want to appreciate Ruby, you must understand the Ruby ecosystem and the philosophy behind the language.

`FRIEND`: Ok. Could you teach me that?

`ME`: I can start giving you some directions, then you'll have to start working on it.

`ME`: I'm going to prepare a brief introduction to Ruby. I'll try to extract the most important features of the language, keeping an eye on Rails since that is your ultimate goal.

`FRIEND`: Cool. How long it will take.

`ME`: Let's schedule one full day. I'll show you the presentation and we'll start digging into Ruby. At the end, we'll try to summarize everything by giving a look at Rack and creating a small MVC application using the awesome Sinatra framework. It is not Rails, but it's definitely a good starting point. We can't concentrate too much concepts into a single session.

`FRIEND`: I agree.

`FRIEND`: See you on Saturday, I can't wait to start playing with Ruby.


This is *that* presentation. **Enjoy Ruby!**


## ShowOff

This is a ShowOff presentation (http://github.com/schacon/showoff)

If you want to see it, you need to install showoff and then run
it in this directory:

$ gem install showoff
$ git clone git://github.com/schacon/showoff-wrangling-git.git
$ cd showoff-wrangling-git
$ showoff

Then you should be able to go to http://localhost:9090 to view the
presentation.

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