From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2007-05-03T23:57:08+09:00 Subject: Re: how to increase the width of a field in rails On 5/3/07, anansi wrote: > well first of all I didn't knew that this newsgroup is limited to just > some aspects of ruby, maybe you should do some white- or black-listing > on topics if you think mine wouldn't fit here. > But every question I droped was answered here very fast and correclty > because as I thought it is obvious that many ppl who uses the Rails > framework also suscribed to the ruby-list. This may be, but in general, you'll find more rails expertise on the rails group. I've seen lots of rails-related questions go unanswered here because no one with the right rails knowledge saw it. > And about the rails (not mailing- and not newsgroup) but google.group: > you really think it's clever to be forced to register (when I wanna sign > up to this list I always get: "You must sign in to Google to complete > the previous action.") to one of the greatest commercial companys on the > planet in order to get knowledge about one of the most free programming > languages on the planet? I don't think so ;) That's a question for the rails community rather than the general ruby community, and even though it might be a catch-22 situation, the ruby list is where it should be raised. > I mean, I'm sure you also realized that ruby never succeded in the step > to spread his information over http and any good forums or websites > about ruby are more rare than unicorns... Hmm, you must not be looking very hard. I've got about 50 different Ruby oriented blogs in the list of rss feeds I look at. You might also want to use resources like del.icio.us. http://del.icio.us/popular/ruby And my most valuable tool in finding information about ruby, or anything else is http://www.google.com although again for you that might be a catch-22. This isn't directed at you personally, but a lot of questions get asked here and on other fora which exhibit evidence that the questioner hasn't done his homework before asking the question. Questions are much more likely to get answered if the question shows that the questioner has tried to solve the problem himself first, and gives clear context information about where he's gotten stuck. Of course this is just reiterating part of the canonical exposition on how to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > so please let me this > newsgroup because it kicks ass :) No one says you can't, just don't be surprised if you don't get all of your rails questions answered, and occasionally get a response which suggests checking the rails group. Again quoting ESR: "Know what your topic is! One of the classic mistakes is asking questions about the Unix or Windows programming interface in a forum devoted to a language or library or tool portable across both. If you don't understand why this is a blunder, you'd be best off not asking any questions at all until you get it." http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum This seems to map directly to asking about rails in a ruby-language forum. If this were a more typical usenet technical forum you might get treated much more rudely. Luckily , for all of us, ruby-lang seems to be one of the more genteel forums on the "interwebs". -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/