From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-06-28T00:06:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's RDocs

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On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Jun 27, 9:36 am, Chuck Remes <cremes.devl...@mac.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 27, 2010, at 2:27 AM, Intransition wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks to Josh Cheek I finally went and started the documentation
> > > project I've been planning to do since '09.
> >
> > >  http://trans.github.com/ruby/core/
> >
> > > The standard library is nearly ready too, and I will need to tie them
> > > together some way. But I think it's a good start.
> >
> > > I becomes clear in doing this just how much the libs, mainly the
> > > standard libs, could use improvement. So I will designate my branch as
> > > purely a fork for doing doc updates, and charge myself with improving
> > > them as time permits.
> >
> > Do you intend to push these changes upstream so that they eventually show
> up on ruby-doc.org?
>
> I will submit the changes for upstream inclusion; and I will do so in
> small chunks so they are easier to follow. Their acceptance is out of
> my hands however, but I certainly hope they will be accepted --who
> doesn't want better documentation? And if they aren't, well then, what
> would be the point?
>
>
I think you have a good chance, it seems stdlib docs are already on the
radar http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/status.html

There are lots of useful hidden libs in there. I just recently discovered
Pathname, for example, and wondered how I had never seen it before.

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