From: why the lucky stiff Date: 2004-09-22T03:20:06+09:00 Subject: Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby, Chapter Five: Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream Beloved friends and key witnesses: Holy highkick! I (at last) present chapter five! Fifty-two pages of spooky new adventures in Ruby. This is a big one for me: the book is now halfway. And I guarantee to you that -- should you read -- you will be in a new place, wading in the schemings of pygmy elephants and deer with powdered wigs. Travel now and read: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ What is the (Poignant) Guide? I am here to tell you that it is a very obscure book, a minor ripple in the orchestrations of mankind, a scattered amalgamation of inky blotches and ridiculous code fragments -- at best -- a transcription of animal software from the original woodblock prints. And I haven't meant to corrupt the text with my snivelling biographies, but it has happened already, what can be done? A printable HTML version is available as well. You'll find a link to it and instructions for printing in Firefox at the Guide's site. Be aware, it's large as a squirrel heaven. Let it load, let it. Well, cheerio. Thankyou to Matz for his excellent resource "Ruby in a Nutshell". It's the employee handbook here at the plant. _why