Ruby First Impressions

I've been trying to make an effort to learn Ruby for a few months now. Finally, the other night I decided I would start writing a small project in Ruby to see what everyone is talking about.

Fortunately Ruby comes prepackaged with CentOS, but the ruby-mysql module was not installed. This was my first minor problem. Attempting to install the mysql module, resulted in Make errors. I finally located the mysql-ruby RPM in the CentOS testing repo. Problem solved.

I admit, I underestimated Ruby. It's more challenging than I expected, but it definitely brought the "fun" back into programming.

I'm still not sure about the best way to structure a Ruby application. I've had a look around some other open source apps though, and it's slowly starting to make more sense to me. If anyone could point me in the direction of a good tutorial that would be much appreciated.

I'm having fun learning though, and I'm sure all my questions will be answered soon.