From: Shad Sterling Date: 2005-01-07T06:12:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:46:41 +0900, Tim Sutherland wrote: > In article <41D44401.4060104@mktec.com>, Zach Dennis wrote: > >James Britt wrote: > > > >> > >> Do you know about www.ruby-doc.org? > >> > >> Did you browse around there? > >> > >> What was your experience? > >> > > > >I don't like how ruby-doc.org's front page is set up. I hate the > >navigation. You have: [...] > > The links at the top and the sidebar(s) on the right are the only parts of the > page that have to do with Ruby documentation, most of the page is taken up > with announcements and so on. > [...] I agree with those suggestions, but my problems with ruby-doc.org are more stupid newbie problems - there's no lists of reserved words and what they mean, of intrinsic variables, that sort of thing. It may be the navigation problems, but I have trouble finding any reference information at all - I see plenty of howtoish prose, which is near impossible to just look something up in. The core and library rdocs are quite good (tho some libraries fail to explain their general concepts), it's language stuff I get stuck on when I can't find things. (things like, how do you control the return value of a do loop?) Now I don't want my first post to be all criticism, so I have to say I'm quite happy with Ruby as a language. I've yet to have the language get in my way. - Shad -- (ooh, finally actually sending a message with gmail...) ---------- Please do not send personal (non-list-related) mail to this address. Personal mail should be sent to polyergic@sterfish.com.