From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-03-19T14:35:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Wanted: A nice clean ruby app to disect

Sascha Ebach wrote:
>
> Curt Hibbs schrieb:
> > We've started a new Ruby Users Group in Saint Louis, Missouri (US).
> > We had our first get together last night over dinner (many thanks to
> > Dave Thomas who also came since he was in town).  About 90% of our
> > members are new to Ruby, and we decided that a good way to get
> > started would  be to dissect the code of a Ruby app to learn Ruby and
> > its idioms first-hand from *real* code.
> >
> > There's *lots* of Ruby open source projects and lots of code
> > available for study. But we have to pick something. I'm looking for
> > some Ruby code that is not too complex, but also not trivially
> > simple. Something that is fairly clean and makes good use of Ruby
> > idioms. And, preferable, something that makes good use of unit tests.
> >
> >
> > What would you recommend?
>
> Rails?

Surely you don't mean Rails, itself. That would be way too complex.

> It has everything you asked for. So now you are going to ask what to
> pick from Rails? ;)

Its a possibility, but I was thinking something more along the lines of a
console app. That way we'd be going through mostly pure ruby code without
having to drag in understanding of a larger framework.

Curt