From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T05:42:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Coming from Perl question

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On 8/17/06, Brian Hicks <bwhicks@aep.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking to switch from perl to something more object oriented. I'm
> trying to decide between ruby and python, but I'm having some issues
> with some aspects of ruby. The language looks great to me,


Good decision then ;)

but I am
> interested in how it is extended (for things like network programming,
> oracle connectivity, extra fancy date manipulation, things like that).
> rubyforge seems to be the central location for these things, but it
> isn't entirely obvious how to get things installed properly or in a
> "standard" way, and if I did manage to get them installed, it's not
> obvious how to use them.
>
> I guess I was hoping for CPAN for ruby (I'm sure that's come up a few
> billion times here).


Strangely enough not at all!


Or at least some sort of page like this:
>
> http://www.python.org/doc/faq/library/
>
> that tells how to find out the information i'm looking for. Can anyone
> help out a newbie?


Try the Ruby Application Archive http://raa.ruby-lang.org/
The famous Pickaxe book has a good chapter about extending
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ext_ruby.html (
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ for frames )
And do not forget the Ruby Hackers Guide ML.

Hope that helps
Robert



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