[#387246] newbie question — sunny parker <info@2020proj.com>

i am coming from php and dont seem to quite understand how ruby works

13 messages 2011/09/01

[#387330] installing naive bayes classifier — aya abdelsalam <ayoya_91@...>

Hello

10 messages 2011/09/02

[#387344] Beginner needing help - Writing right-angle triangle program — Kane Williams <theburrick@...>

I've been going through a Haskell tutorial (Just to see what it's like)

12 messages 2011/09/03

[#387356] Which version should I download? — Vladimir Van Bauenhoffer <cluny_gisslaren@...>

Im new to programming and Im thinking of downloading and starting with

17 messages 2011/09/03

[#387392] loops problem — jack jones <shehio_22@...>

for (j = @array.length ; j > counter ; j = j-1) # counter is a variable

13 messages 2011/09/04

[#387469] posts on Unix systems programming — Eric Wong <normalperson@...>

I would like to do a series of mailing list posts on the subject of Unix

28 messages 2011/09/06

[#387530] Unexpected behavior of Ruby array — Suvankar Satpati <suvankar.17@...>

I was going through the exercises at http://rubykoans.com/ and got

11 messages 2011/09/08

[#387544] Executing the output of a look — dwight schrute <spambocks@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2011/09/08

[#387586] Creating a hash from two arrays — simon harrison <simonharrison.uk@...>

Hi. Can anyone help with this? I'd like to end with a hash like so:

15 messages 2011/09/09

[#387596] newbie ruby installation malloc issue — "mark e." <mark_f_edwards@...>

hi all -

12 messages 2011/09/09

[#387614] how to write data in binary to a file? — frank hi <yw_hi@163.com>

Hi,

11 messages 2011/09/10

[#387646] How do I make output generate a float without an excess numbers of decimal places? — Kane Williams <theburrick@...>

For example, my current code is

11 messages 2011/09/11

[#387725] Any downsides to writing paranthesises? — Vladimir Van Bauenhoffer <cluny_gisslaren@...>

Im a newbie programmer who is trying to learn Ruby after having just

18 messages 2011/09/12

[#387811] Get interpreter path — Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>

Hello,

26 messages 2011/09/14
[#387842] Re: Get interpreter path — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2011/09/14

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:

[#387844] Re: Get interpreter path — Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...> 2011/09/14

On 14 September 2011 20:47, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@gmail.com> wrote:

[#387814] Tough Ruby Homework — Rory Pascua <rorypascua@...>

I'm trying to take a long piece of text, find a word, and get that word

18 messages 2011/09/14

[#387853] Can I Safely Use Rubinius While Learning? — Aaron Jackson <jacksonaaronc@...>

Greetings,

18 messages 2011/09/15

[#387915] Some newbie questions — Vladimir Van Bauenhoffer <cluny_gisslaren@...>

I got some newbie questions which I would very much appreciate if

14 messages 2011/09/15

[#388003] Ruby Speed Question — Kevin Anon <oblivious.sage@...>

Wrote my first Ruby program recently for a class assignment where we had

12 messages 2011/09/18

[#388078] appending \n to each element in an array — Joe Collins <joec_49@...>

I have an array

13 messages 2011/09/20

[#388123] Turning on a special program at special time and turning off the computer at another special time — "amir e." <aef1370@...>

I decided to write a program in RUBY wherein these items have been done

11 messages 2011/09/21
[#388124] Re: Turning on a special program at special time and turning off the computer at another special time — andrew mcelroy <sophrinix@...> 2011/09/21

That sounds like a program a special program a terrorist would write. Are

[#388198] Conditional statements with multiple arguments — "Thomas B." <sinixlol@...>

Good afternoon everyone,

18 messages 2011/09/24

[#388203] Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out — "Yuki Sonoda (Yugui)" <yugui@...>

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19 messages 2011/09/24
[#388208] Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out — Quintus <sutniuq@...> 2011/09/24

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[#388209] Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out — Chris White <cwprogram@...> 2011/09/24

[#388214] Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out — Quintus <sutniuq@...> 2011/09/24

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[#388216] Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out — Yusuke Endoh <mame@...> 2011/09/24

Hello,

[#388248] Looking for better/familiar approach to command line opts — "Perl J." <perljunkie@...>

So I guess the warning to the reader upfront is... I'm a bit of a Perl

14 messages 2011/09/25

[#388333] Get all classes from a list of files — Jeroen van Ingen <jeroeningen@...>

I have a list of ruby files. I would like to create objects from all

11 messages 2011/09/28

[#388342] Ruby Syntax @keywords ||= [ ] — Bhavesh Sharma <sharmabhavesh@...>

Sorry if this comes across as a dumb question, but what does the

11 messages 2011/09/28

[#388366] IO.readlines will not accept variable with file name Why? — Joda jenson <jodajen2@...>

I am fairly new to Ruby and I am stuck on this. Would someone have a

13 messages 2011/09/29
[#388368] Re: IO.readlines will not accept variable with file name Why? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2011/09/29

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Joda jenson <jodajen2@yahoo.com> wrote:

Re: De-listing of ruby-doc.org on ruby-lang.org?

From: Chris White <cwprogram@...>
Date: 2011-09-11 17:24:12 UTC
List: ruby-talk #387670
> While we're at it, I'll mention something annoying me to no end for
> some time now: ruby-doc.org's stdlib documentation is missing for some
> libs. Go to http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/ and start clicking links on
> the left - soon enough you'll find some what return a 404. For
> example, Win32API, soap, readbytes, and I haven't even checked a third
> of the list.
>
> If the docs for these are actually missing, then you should show some
> user-friendly messages or at least a list of methods, like
> rubydoc.info does.

Towards the end of last month I uploaded some updated documentation to a free Heroku instance:

http://furious-waterfall-55.heroku.com/

Note: this is a free Heroku instance so it will be pretty flakey. However all the files served are static so it won't be too bad hopefully.

When contacting the ruby-doc.org maintainer about having it hosted for the time being, he stated that there were going to be updates at some point. He also stated that there are issues with the way that RDoc does some of the processing of class hierarchy, so a custom tool is used. I've requested more information but haven't heard anything back yet. At any rate, the URL above uses an updated rdoc with the darkfish template. On a side note I'm trying to put together a Ruby Language Guide. In essence I'd like to make it something more organized. The problem with the current state of documentation from a reference perspective is that it lacks an organized structure. Take for example the Array class. Arrays have methods for obtaining values, modifying values, and iterating over values. This sort of categorization is simply too difficult to automate given the current state of things, and would require linking to some kind of external metadata. 

Also the inline documentation samples are very concise (part of which is to not create walls of comments in the code) and are often written in a "here's the input and here's the output" style. There are some cases to where showing usage more tailed towards real world use requires much more detailed code.

Regards,
Chris White
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