From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T07:31:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Extremely Noobish Documentation Question

Patrick McNally wrote:
>> open methed is a method defined in kernel module
>>     
>
> Thank you for the quick response.  I see that now but I guess my 
> underlying questions still remains.  What should indicate that the 
> method is part of Kernel and why is it invoked when I call 'File.open'? 
> I apologize if I am asking these questions in the wrong place.  I'm just 
> feeling a little lost.
>
> If there is a more comprehensive resource that I should read, let me 
> know.  I hate to be asking questions that have answers elsewhere, but 
> I've found that most of the documentation I have seen does not answer 
> the questions I have.
>
> -Paco
>
>   
Ruby's doc is not as comprehensive as Java's. That's all there is to it. 
There's also 100 million Java books but only 2 dozen or so for Ruby. 
You'll catch up as you go along. In addition to ruby-doc, I recommend 
you get a copy of Dave Thomas' _Programming_Ruby_. If you really get 
into Ruby there's a couple other good books. Consider Hal Fulton's 
_The_Ruby_Way_, David Black's _Ruby_for_Rails_, or the _Ruby_Cookbook_ 
(can't remember the authors' names).