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Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby

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True ... Just completed up to exercise 8 of "Learn Ruby The Hard Way". I really like this book by Michael Hartl. It is really neat and well-designed, very beautiful web interface. Guess it is written in Ruby as well ? 

On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 12:05:23 AM UTC+8, Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 06.04.2016 14:14, Cai Gengyang wrote:
> > Ok finally, I got it to work ! (I realized the key is just to follow
> > the steps in the tutorial exactly lol)
> 
> That's what they are usually given for.
> 
> > Guess my mind was elsewhere, thinking about my disastrous academic
> > career for the past few years and recent visa denial ... can't focus.
> > Guess when I REALLY concentrate, I can get things done but my
> > attention span is like that of a butterfly, perhaps I suffer from
> > some form of ADHD and depression. (sometimes I feel like I am on top
> > of the world, sometimes I feel like dirt)
> 
> This is something that needs appropriate treatment - something a 
> newsgroup cannot provide.
> 
> > Gonna take a break and on to exercise 4 later ! Plan to spend a month
> > or two completing "Learn Ruby The Hard Way" and mastering it until it
> > "clicks" in my brain and becomes intuitive and 2nd nature, (just like
> > how playing Go is intuitive and 2nd nature to me), then build
> > something useful (perhaps a search engine), put it on the internet
> > and get users to test it ...
> 
> I'd say it is quite unrealistic to spend two months on any programming 
> language and at the end mastering it and having it become second nature 
> - especially when having difficulties to focus.  At least it would 
> require someone extraordinarily talented or with a lot experience in 
> programming in general (or maybe both).
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> 	robert
> 
> -- 
> remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end
> http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/

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Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 03:59 -0700
  Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Sebastian Christ <rudolfo.christ@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 14:47 +0200
    Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 05:59 -0700
      Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Sebastian Christ <rudolfo.christ@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 16:07 +0200
        Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 00:42 -0700
          Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Sebastian Christ <rudolfo.christ@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 10:32 +0200
            Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 05:14 -0700
              Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-04-06 18:05 +0200
                Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 03:29 -0700
                Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-04-09 20:24 +0200

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