From: Jeremy McAnally Date: 2008-04-10T02:41:18+09:00 Subject: Re: About Ruby There is no language spec for Ruby. You can look at the spec suite that's being built as a reference....that's about the closest thing we have. Of course, you can also look at the parser. :) As for books, I'd recommend "The Ruby Programming Language" since Matz was involved in authoring it. It's not necessarily the "best" teaching book, but it's the most up to date and covers more of the "why." --Jeremy On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Jakob Lenfers wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Ruby and apart from wanting to learn ruby (and rails), I > chose Ruby as a language I'll have to - mh, in lack of a better word - > analyze this semester. > > Most importantly I would like to know what is the /highest/ > documentation for Ruby, some kind of definition? I mean there are > several implementations (Ruby, JRuby, IronRuby, ...), where is > documented what they have to implement? Something similar to > http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/j.title.doc.html > > Also I would like to get some general book about ruby. It would be best > if it would include a chapter about Matz motivations and the focus of > ruby. There are sure a lot of pages in the net about that, but a citable > source would be nicer. > > I hope my question fits in here, I couldn't find indication > otherwise. In case it doesn't, pointer to a better location would be > nice. > > TIA, Jakob > P.S. I wasn't around in the usenet quite a while, I hope my config is > still all right :-) > -- > Lenfi is blogging: Lenfis bLog: (mostly german) > -- http://jeremymcanally.com/ http://entp.com Read my books: Ruby in Practice (http://manning.com/mcanally/) My free Ruby e-book (http://humblelittlerubybook.com/) Or, my blogs: http://mrneighborly.com http://rubyinpractice.com