From: "Michael T. Richter" Date: 2007-10-21T17:38:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Is Ruby For Me? --=-E+iqfI8Q1EFkUGhzMWz7 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-eQiUZKCsfyxLcRF/mW32" --=-eQiUZKCsfyxLcRF/mW32 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2007-21-10 at 17:14 +0900, 7stud -- wrote: > Ruby's documentation is so bad, it makes learning the language too=20 > frustrating. The only good source of documentation is the book=20 > 'Programming Ruby'. If whatever you need isn't documented in that book,=20 > then it might as well not be part of the language. Well, that and The Ruby Way (more useful by far than the Pickaxe to me), the Ruby Cookbook, Everyday Scripting with Ruby, Learn to Program, Agile Web Development with Rails, Rails Recipes, Rails Solutions, Ruby for Rails (and this just names the published material I own) ... but hey! What's nearly an order of magnitude difference between friends? --=20 Michael T. Richter (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com) We should sell bloat credits, the way the government sells pollution credits. Everybody's assigned a certain amount of bloat, and if they go over, they have to purchase bloat credits from some other group that's been more careful. (Bent Hagemark) --=-eQiUZKCsfyxLcRF/mW32 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2007-21-10 at 17:14 +0900, 7stud -- wrote: 
Ruby's documentation is so bad,  it makes learning =
the language too 
frustrating.   The only good source of documentatio=
n is the book 
'Programming Ruby'.  If whatever you need isn't doc=
umented in that book, 
then it might as well not be part of the language.<=
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Well, that and The Ruby Way (more useful by far than the Pickaxe to me), th= e Ruby Cookbook, Everyday Scripting with Ruby, Learn to Program, Agile Web = Development with Rails, Rails Recipes, Rails Solutions, Ruby for Rails (and= this just names the published material I own) ... but hey!&n= bsp; What's nearly an order of magnitude difference between friends?

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Michael T. Richter <ttmri= chter@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com)
We should sell bloat credits, the way the government sells pollution cre= dits. Everybody's assigned a certain amount of bloat, and if they go over, = they have to purchase bloat credits from some other group that's been more = careful. (Bent Hagemark)
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