From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T15:06:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] New Ruby Web Site is Officially Launched

On 9/12/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just posted this to the O'Reilly Ruby
> blog [snip]
> :
>
> It took 18 months from inception, a lot of hard work from volunteers (and it
> almost died a couple times), but the new and completely revamped Ruby web
> site <http://www.ruby-lang.org/> is now live (there is also a Japanese
> version <http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/>)!.

Wow! Very nice. The finishing touches you folks have put on since I'd
seen it last at the previous URL really polish it up nicely.

That book list page
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/book-list/ is very cool and
complete (though you'll want to move the "Ruby Cookbook" and "RoR Up
and Running" from "Coming Soon" to "Available Now").

There's only one remaining part of the site that sticks out to me as
looking unfinished. Look at he "Libraries" page
(http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/libraries/). The command line I/O
snippets probably should be syntax highlighted in some way, possibly
similar to (but not too similar to) the code snippets. (I like a
darkish (but not too darkish) background, with the stuff the user
types showing up in bold.)

Again, really nice work.

The pic of Matz on the "About" page is a nice touch too. :)

---John