From: Premshree Pillai Date: 2004-12-31T02:48:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:56:43 +0900, gabriele renzi wrote: > Aquila ha scritto: > > Ben Branders wrote: > > > > > >>I think Ruby lacks a good beginners guide. A guide that explains what > >>OO-programming is and how you can do it in Ruby. A guide that explains > >>everything with very simple programs, from A-Z. > > > > > > Have you tried ? My conclusion is that the > > current documentation isn't optimal, it should be more structured. > > When you browse for ruby programming you find all kinds of tutorials, > > perhaps those should be more concentrated on the ruby-lang homepage? > > well, they're linked from the "more.." element in the documentation > section on the right: > http://ruby-lang.org/en/20020103.html Though it doesn't make *that* big a difference, I think the Ruby website (ruby-lang.org/en) should have more "readable" urls. I mean why should the download link to Ruby be something like http://ruby-lang.org/en/20020102.html instead of something like, say, http://ruby-lang.org/en/download As I said, this is not necessarily terribly important (with search engines and stuff), but why not? > btw, I'm wondering if non-english documentation should be listed in > separate sections in that page.. > > -- Premshree Pillai http://www.livejournal.com/~premshree