From: manveru <ulmo@...>
Date: 2005-08-09T02:24:14+09:00
Subject: Proper Documentation

Hi list,

I卒m a bloody newbie in ruby, and the only thing worth to be called 
language i learned was php.
although it卒s really fun and really enlightening for me to learn ruby, 
there is one thing i miss:
ruby has no documentation that i am able to understand as a newcomer.
while that may be a lack of intelligence on my side, i don卒t think that 
is the reason ^^
i slapped my brain around with the way to program OO, and as i finally 
begin to understand how that is done, i imagine there are better ways to 
learn it and i have gone through unnecessary pain.
there is the Pragmatic Programmers Guide 
(http://www.rubycentral.com/book/) and that卒s it. (at least i didn卒t see 
any other tutorials)
i have learned a lot through that tutorial, and maybe i really have to 
buy all the ruby-books at amazon to stay up to date with changes on ruby.

i really would like a kind of php.net (http://www.php.net) for ruby, and 
i am willing to contribute an enormous amount of time into a thing like 
that (but well, i卒m a noob - i can卒t do that myself)
is there something like that? (maybe in some alpha-stage?)
i know ruby-docs, but that helps only when you have understood it already
is there some tutorial on OO itself? so we could use it and write a 
ruby-version of it...

i don卒t know if i卒m only ignorant of the whole ruby-sphere out there, or 
if it really exists only in japanese...

thx for your contribution
Michael Fellinger