From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-02-14T15:43:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Structuring Ruby extension code

craig duncan wrote:

> Thanks for the info.  It's a shame the documentation situation is the 
> way that it is.  In order to get _any_ documentation for the version 
> i'm running (and coding to), i've got to go buy a (very good, 
> admittedly) book.  I already bought the first pickaxe book.  Can't i 
> get an upgrade.  :-)

Sure.  Send me your copy and I will manually inscribe the updates in 
black india ink.

Incidentally, there's a knock knock joke in the Ruby world that goes 
something like this.

  Knock Knock
     Who's there?
  Ruby.
     Ruby who?
  Ruby <EUC-JP encoded answer.>

At least there's not an overage of bad information.  And really, it is 
nice that PickAxeII is all you need to master Ruby itself.

_why