From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T15:57:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Free Ruby 'Cookbook' (48.71% done)

> Randy Lawrence <jm@zzzzzzzzzzzz.com> wrote:
>> Anyone know if this is moving along or stalled?
>>
>> Here's the current status from:
>>
>> PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook
>> http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/
>
> Gavin Sinclair started a separate effort, which I took over but have not
> been able to do anything for yet :( It's on
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-cookbook/ - I'm tied up for the next
> couple of weeks, but I'll make a serious effort to get it up and running
> with an easy submission process come August.

Let me just point out for interested readers that the cookbook Martin
refers to was a copy n paste from PLEAC, with a little effort injected by
myself and some Sydney colleagues about two years ago.  The idea is this:
the PLEAC project treats all languages as substitutes for Perl, and is
concerned only with code, not with education.  So the PLEAC project and
the Ruby Cookbook project can swap code all they like, while maintaining
their own focus.

There have been a few attempts to create a Ruby cookbook, with none
ultimately succeeding :(

Gavin