From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-01-25T10:33:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Which RubyCentral docs?  RubyCentral.com has a links on the front page 
> that indicate they refer to old content:

That's what I meant to say in the last sentence above.  I still use it
because it seems to be one of the better organized sources of
information for Ruby programming, even though it's not official or
up-to-date.

> RubyCentral.org has a link on the front page to the Ruby Documentation 
> Project, which has the documentation for the 1.8.2 core, standard lib, 
> and C APIs.

Ah, is ruby-doc.org the official source of Ruby documentation then?
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/ seems a bit overwhelming.

> Finally, have you used ri to get documentation at the command line? 
> It's built into Ruby, but may not be fully installed if you built Ruby 
> from source, as the default configuration is (I believe) to not build 
> the data files.

I've never heard of this!  I don't seem to have it on my system.  If
it's anything like Python's "help" command, this is excellent news
indeed!  Thanks for the pointer.

Cheers,
Navin.