Going Ruby: Straight to IronRuby?

I would use pure ruby (Matz Ruby Interpreter (MRI)) to start off. My understanding is that iron ruby is not quite ready yet.

Use pure Ruby first, IR isn't quite finished yet. Check out http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ - even though it's quite strange, it's a very good introduction.

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