From: Dan Fitzpatrick <dan@...>
Date: 2005-01-28T04:59:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby resources

I've been working with Ruby for about 30 days. These are my links or 
particular interest:

http://ruby-lang.org/en/ 
http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/
http://www.postgresql.jp/interfaces/ruby/reference.html
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?OneLiners
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubywebdialogs/index.html
http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
http://fhwang.net/blog/40.html
http://rrr.jin.gr.jp/doc/csv/
http://www.rickbradley.com/chron/20030625/
http://www.deveiate.org/code/IO-Reactor.html
http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/
http://pub.cozmixng.org/~the-rwiki/rw-cgi.rb?cmd=view;name=dRuby
http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html
http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/rubyguide.html
http://rafb.net/paste/results/nZsui045.html
http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/cookbook/
http://www.zytrax.com/tech/lang/ruby/
http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus8/html/book.html

Dan



Jeff Davis wrote:

> I've been learning Ruby lately and I think it's a great language. 
> However, it takes time to figure out where the information and 
> resources are.
>
> Complete documentation seems to be hard to find. The Programming Ruby 
> link is nice and very helpful, but it doesn't include any reference 
> section, and it references page numbers that I can't find (because the 
> pages online aren't numbered). Some reference documents exist but are 
> hard to find. Nothing is really searchable.
>
> rdoc is not interactive like perl or python, and requires a path to 
> the actual ruby file and not just an arbitrary class name (can you 
> rdoc a built-in class?). It does great html output, however.
>
> It's hard to find good documentation for the modules/classes, built-in 
> or otherwise.
>
> It's also hard to find modules or classes that aren't built in. I 
> think I found the 'postgres' module in the RAA, but it isn't exactly 
> an application, it's more of a library.
>
> I have some idea about what "gems" are but it's confusing how they fit 
> into the big picture.
>
> Can someone let me know where I can find some of these resources?
>
> It seems as though perl, python, and php have all of these things 
> easily accessible from the main websites. With ruby, it's very 
> difficult to even know what website to go to (rubyforge? runy-lang? 
> rubycentral? ruby-doc? raa?), and there's no clear division of 
> responsibility that I can see.
>
> I really like the language and community, but perhaps the community 
> resources put off some of the less determined people from getting into 
> it.
>
> Regards,
>    Jeff Davis
>
>