I ended up making it like 50 pages through the book and just giving up and buying the O'Reilly Learning Ruby. I've been a professional software developer for more than 20 years and I thought I wouldn't have any problem learning Ruby this way. The problem is that he just did some things in a weird way and really didn't explain everything in the code like I expected. I spent a lot of time going 'uh', 'huh?' and 'I don't get it.' I hate not finishing a book.

In many examples, I just couldn't understand how he got to where he got or why he did it the way he did. I guess it's a cool book to learn weird ways to accomplish things in Ruby, but did nothing for me.