From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-02-26T13:44:35+09:00
Subject: Re: tutorial directory

Simon Strandgaard wrote:

> I visited Lua's Tutorial Directory and got the feeling that Ruby should
> have such place too.  This would be a good place to make contributions.
> I hope a few of us have some (not yet allocated) sparetime to put into it.
> 
> At the moment Ruby's directory is rather empty.
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?TutorialDirectory
> 
> try compare above with Lua's tutorial directory.
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/TutorialDirectory

Not looking to knock another language or site, but a cursory glance 
shows, for example, that at least some of these Lua "tutorials" are a 
few paragraphs at best.  Pick any chapter from the online PickAxe and 
you have the equivalent.

There is also a list of online Ruby articles on ruby-doc.org:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/articles/

Not all are tutorials in any meaningful sense of the word, but there are 
a number of them there.

(The amount of information on ruby-doc has grown quite a bit since it 
was started, so a redesign/refactoring is on my elusive To Do list. 
Certainly it should be much easier to locate information by topic, 
author, article type, and so on.)

James Britt