From: Roger Pack Date: 2009-06-22T21:10:05+09:00 Subject: ruby suggestion: officially sanctioned tutorials/howto's Current situation: I remember way back when using the official python tutorial, there was a section explaining the proper use of select with sockets, etc [1]. This was quite helpful to me getting started with the language, having a more "tutorial" feel place to explain how socket IO should work [i.e. larger snippets than the current rdoc has, place to explain nuances, etc.] The current rdocs [2] are useful and contain a lot of very helpful information, but for me I currently have to already know the name of the method I want to learn about for them to be useful [there is no guide, little hierarchy [class based only], no "officially sanctioned" place for things like longer tutorials, etc.] I would like to suggest a more "officially sanctioned" Ruby tutorial/howto to try to help fill that void. Whatever that might mean [official editable wiki page for it, a folder in svn that has tutorials only, whatever]. I would be quite happy to help--set it up, maintain it, or even write it myself, should such an idea be accepted. Another option might be to add very long, tutorial style rdoc comments to classes. Thoughts? Thanks. =roger [1] http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ specifically http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/sockets.html [2] http://ruby-doc.faithpromotingstories.org/doc/ruby-1.9.1-p129 or http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/index.html -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.