From: Navindra Umanee Date: 2005-01-25T09:36:37+09:00 Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity Ben Giddings wrote: > Thoughts? As someone who's been lightly dabbling with Ruby recently (and is not about to stop), you make several good points. I can't get rid of the lingering feeling that Ruby is still somewhat immature/unpolished. Part of the reason is lack of documentation and sometimes the documentation that I do use is plain wrong or out-of-date because the Ruby API changes from release to release. Of course, I'm using RubyCentral for most of my documentation needs -- they've done a fantastic job, but that's hardly official or up-to-date. Some things I still have no explanation for, such as why there are mutually incompatible Time and DateTime classes with different functionality. Taking off my user's hat though and looking at it from an OpenSource project perspective, I imagine the real problem is that there's probably not enough people willing to do real work on ruby-lang.org. In that case, relying on independent sites to fulfil the project needs remains the best bet... unless those people can be recruited to help the official site directly. (like you've been discussing) On the plus side, I'm slowing getting addicted to Ruby, and hoping that by the time my project comes to fruitation speed will not be an issue and awesome extensions like Distributed Ruby will still be alive and well. :) Cheers, Navin.