From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-06-24T05:46:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby suggestion: officially sanctioned tutorials/howto's

On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:11, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> Why can't the tutorial go on Socket, or Socket.open?  Net::HTTP has  
>> it's tutorials on Net::HTTP...
>
> If every class were so well documented, the subject of this thread  
> probably wouldn't come up :(
>
> Still, I can imagine wanting 'ri Net::HTTP' to output a short  
> summary of the api, rather than a full tutorial, which would be  
> accessible by some other command.

I love Net::HTTP for it's verboseness.  90% of what I want to do is  
covered in that page and I can easily see how the whole thing fits  
together from all the examples it presents.   This also allow me to  
figure out what method I want to look up for the remaining 10%.