From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T18:22:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Updates to Programming Ruby: Request for Help

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, 10:13:38 AM, Dave wrote:


> Folks:

> I've been wondering how much it's going to take to get Programming Ruby
> up to date wrt Ruby 1.8. I'll be working the changelog and news files,
> but at the same time it's easy to miss stuff. So, I'm asking for help.

The shim module (1.8 functionality running on 1.6) may be the single
greatest source of information.  Throw in the changelog for
syntax/built-in stuff for completeness, and the job sounds managable.

I'm no expert in this, but I'll help where I can.  Just thought I'd
mention the shim module in case you hadn't thought of it.

Now for a quick opinion.  When 1.8 is release, hopefully all of the
classes it comes with will be documented in the source code and
extracted by RDoc.  This means everyone should be able to view "class
reference" kind of documentation.  On the one hand, this would help
you update the Pickaxe.  On the other, that may become less necessary.
The core value of the book is teaching people Ruby, and thankfully
that doesn't require much change.

Gavin