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"I mean stuff like having better documentation, for example, online, free, in googleable format" Do you mean for the core language? Are you not happy with http
by ansin 18y ago
"I mean stuff like having better documentation, for example, online, free, in googleable format"
Do you mean for the core language? Are you not happy with http://www.ruby-doc.org/ http://www.ruby-doc.org/ ?
- Tichy 18y agoI am not happy with them: recently I was looking for the API docs of the standard library for Ruby 1.9, and it turns out it is not available online anywhere. ruby-doc only has the 1.8 stuff. I spent hours trying to figure out how to create my own documentation with rdoc ad ri but eventually gave up. So now I don't even have the documentation of the standard library for Ruby.
- jamesbritt 18y agoPlus you can do a custom Google search like this: http://ruby-doc.org/q/<your search string>
- ansin 18y agoBest thing I learned today. Thanks.
- jamesbritt 18y agoMy pleasure.
- nir 18y agoruby-doc.org is nice, but there's a lot missing in the package level (FeedTools etc). Also, it could use a lot more code examples. Here again I think it's interesting to compare to PHP's annotated docs ca. 2000, which were a great resource since they usually contained a few common usage examples for every function. The language itself was less consistent and mature than Ruby, but the user contributed (pre-Web 2.0! ;)) docs made up for it.