From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T06:43:23+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm having a hard time learning ruby.

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:10:06AM +0900, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
> 
> 
> > My biggest hurdle getting started with ruby is finding which
> > methods/classes/files to call upon for whatever the heck I'm trying to
> > accomplish.
> 
>     However, if this is your only problem then you're probably a more 
> competent programmer than you let on.  If that's the case, Paul's suggestion 
> of this reference will be valuable to you:
> 
> http://www.rubycentral.com/book/builtins.html
> 
>     It's not exactly searchable

It is if you wget it and can use grep fairly well.  If you're on
Windows, you may need Cygwin or Windows-ports of those tools to get the
same behavior.


> 
>     I don't know if this is considered rude or not but, since the Pickaxe 
> book is available online at:
> 
> http://www.rubycentral.com/book/
> 
>     ...you could simply suck down the entire site and perform your search on 
> the HTML, all for free.  Again, I don't know how the community feels about 
> you downloading the entire online "book," so my apologies if this is 
> considered rude...

Considering the Debian APT archives provide it in a .deb package for
easy "isntallation" on the local system (package name "rubybook"), I
doubt there's any cultural prohibition there.  The online version is
licensed under the Open Publication License: so long as you don't
violate its terms, do what thou wilt.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
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