Noobs helping Noobs
I have recently got on IRC. I’ve been on the #rubyonrails for a few days. I, a rails noob, has even managed to help a few other noobs. One problem I helped with, seems to have something to do with strange characters in your file, you get some strange error about \34 character (or something really weird) — I found it by pasting my code into windows notepad and finding some strange unprintable character. I had copy/pasted I think some content from word (smacks head).
I’m starting to learn enough RoR to no longer feel like a poser at the next ruby meeting…which by the way, Jim Weirich, creator of Rake is going to speak… and… I also found a podcast yesterday with him…. AND one about Selenium (whoo hoo!):
Jim Weircih, Ruby on Rails Podcast (mp3)
I also got the pleasure of meeting (over IM) Ian Langworth, author of Perl Testing - A Developers Notebook. Andy Lester hooked us up in group IM chat. Very cool. 
Pretty cool…