From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-12-14T17:18:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby and a Ruby Reference

On Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 6:33:17 PM, Mike wrote:

> 2.  What are the most definitive references for Ruby and the standard
> libraries that are available?  I've found the reference at RubyCentral
> to be very helpful (http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/), but it also
> seems to be missing things here and there.  On the other hand, it's
> possible that I'm completely mis-reading it.

What you are reading online is "Programming Ruby, 1ed", a book by Dave
Thomas and Andy Hunt.  The second edition hit the shelves recently but
there's no online version.  It's a purchase you won't regret, and it
describes all the standard libraries by example, and all the builtin
classes in detail (up to date with the latest Ruby).

Information about the standard library is also housed at

  http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib

Cheers,
Gavin