From: brabuhr@... Date: 2009-08-24T09:02:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Why, oh why, _why? On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Tony Arcieri wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:34 PM, David Masover wrote: >> > Among the terrible consequences of this, one of the lesser but still >> > notable is that someone with the power needs to edit ruby-lang.org to >> > remove the link to tryruby.hobix.com >> >> That is sad, and probably the first time I've been truly burnt by an online >> service... >> >> That is, while I imagine someone may have his "freaky freaky sandbox" >> somewhere, I'll no longer be able to point people to that amazing >> introduction. It was something like fifteen or twenty minutes, even for >> non- >> programmers, and served as an amazing introduction to Ruby and programming >> in >> general. >> >> Perhaps I'm being selfish, but I think that's one thing I'll miss the most. > > I entirely agree.  I must've pointed at least a dozen people who were > interested in trying to learn to program but had no idea how to start at > tryruby, and many of them "got it" from that more than any other tutorial. > While it wouldn't be too difficult to duplicate the sandboxed VM-on-the-web, > it'd be much harder to replicate the easy and informative tutorial that went > along with it. Fortunately there is some progress on that front: http://whymirror.github.com/ sandbox and Try Ruby: Jedi master parolkar is recovering Try Ruby and its sandbox-shaped heart. Thanks to lsegal who recovered a bunch of sandbox code from svn. Once it's done, they'll post to comp.lang.ruby to get it linked from ruby-lang.org again. Try Ruby is a great project, please do what you can to help parolkar revive it!