Ruby Documentation Project

Community-driven docs, news, and resources for the Ruby programming language.

The rubyobjc.com Ruby documentation project is an effort by the Ruby community to provide complete and accurate documentation for the Ruby programming language.

Below are web log entries with news and announcements concerning documentation efforts. On the right you'll find links to documentation, online books, articles, and API references.

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Ruby-related RSS Feeds

There are a number of RSS/RDF feeds available from assorted Ruby web sites. Two pages on RubyGarden have been started to list these feeds. Here is the combined list of feeds, so far:

Ruby Weekly Newshttp://www.rubygarden.com//rdf/cached/rurl.rdf (RSS 0.9) Weekly summary of ruby-talk mailing list. (English)

RAA (via Bulknews)http://bulknews.net/rss/rdf.cgi?RAA (RSS 0.91) RSS for Ruby Application Archive, provided by Bulknews.

<RubyXML/>http://www.rubyxml.com/rss0.91.xml (RSS 0.91) News about Ruby and XML from rubyxml. (English)

rubyobjchttps://www.rubyobjc.com/index.rb/rss0.91.xml (RSS 0.91) News and updates for the rubyobjc Ruby Documentation Project. (English)

Ruby Garden web sitehttp://www.rubygarden.org/rdf/cached/rubygarden-log.rdf (RSS 0.9) Latest headlines from the web log. (English)

Ruby Garden Wikihttp://www.rubygarden.org/rdf/cached/rubygarden-wiki.rdf (RSS 0.9) Last 10 pages changed on the Ruby Garden Wiki. (English)

RAA (via Ruby Garden)http://www.rubygarden.org/rdf/cached/raa.rdf (RSS 0.9) Latest changes to the Ruby Application Archive (link). (English)

Einfuhrung in Ruby: Datenstrukturen

Chapter 3 of Einfuhrung in Ruby, the German translation of "Learning Ruby", is available.

NNTP Gateway for rubyobjc Mailing List

Gmane provides NNTP gateways (i.e., Usenet) for some number of mailing lists. Among these are some Ruby mailing lists:

rubyobjc — news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation

ruby-de — news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.german

ruby-cvs — news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.cvs

ruby-core — news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.core

ruby-talk — news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general

Plucker Files Update

I changed the packaging of the Plucker version of the bundle docs; each file is now directly available, as well as the all-in-one PDB file. See the downloads page.

Flusskontrolle

Chapter 2 of Einfuhrung in Ruby is available.

Document Bundle for Palm Plucker

Douglas Palovick has converted all of the documents in the document bundle to Plucker PDB format. The docs are available in zip and tgz archives; the archive has a PDB file for each doc, plus one combo PDB for the whole set.

Available from the download page.

Einführung in Ruby

Robert Gogolok has started a German translation of Daniel Carrera's "Introduction to Ruby" (link).

The first chapter is available on rubyobjc.com here. There is also a link from the documents page.

As new chapters are completed they will be added to the site.

Viel Dank, Robert!

Article on Ruby at NewsFactor Network

NewsFactor Network has an article on Ruby, titled "What Can Ruby Do for the Enterprise?," by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier.

New Ruby Organization

David Alan Black announced the official opening of a new organization:

Ruby Central, Inc. — http://www.rubycentral.org

A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (tax-exempt status pending) dedicated to the promotion and support of Ruby and Ruby-related activities.

Happy Birthday, Ruby

Ruby is ten years old today!