From: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen <ecomba@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T20:58:51+09:00
Subject: [ANN] - Ruby Patterns

Hi everyone!

I have recently joined this group to see what things are being  
discussed Ruby. And I have to say that there is a lot of interesting  
information shared in this group!

I come from a Java environment (have been coding in Java for the past  
11 years) and I must admit that I was amazed by Ruby when I stumbled  
onto it not long ago.

One of my hobbies has always been the study of design patterns,  
refactoring, etc... And in general the way we can improve code to  
make it more maintainable, etc.

A sentence comes into my mind on this:

	Any fool can write code that a computer understands, it takes a good  
developer to write code that a human being understands

I think it was Kent Beck who said this... Not sure though.

Anyway, Ruby, as far as I can tell really adapts to this words pretty  
well and I consider it a fantastic OO language.

Being so I just set up a web site http://www.rubypatterns.org where I  
hope we can all share pattern knowledge in Ruby. It is a wiki and be  
warned, there is no content at all there yet. Just a blank page to be  
edited by anyone so that we can start a pattern catalogue for all the  
Ruby developers out there...

Well, I hope you like the idea!

Best regards,

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen
http://www.rubypatterns.org