From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-09-19T03:58:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby guidelines for creating libs

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 01:55:22 +0900, Randy W. Sims
<ml-ruby@thepierianspring.org> wrote:
> Does Ruby have something equivelant to Perl's perlmodstyle[1] manual
> page? Something that lays out the prefered style and conventions used to
> create libraries. Little things like: How do you specify versions? (grep
> shows usage of both VERSION and VERSION_MAJOR, VERSION_MINOR, etc.)
> Preferred documentation style. Naming. Error handling. Packaging &
> configuration. etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> Randy.
> 
> 1. <http://perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/pod/perlmodstyle.html>
>

More specific than what you're looking for but still relevant, check
out the RubyGems chapter from the upcoming Programming Ruby 2nd
edition[1].  It deals with how to create RubyGem packages out of your
libraries.

Chad

[1]  http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html