The awesome Ruby community

Thursday, July 6. 2006

The awesome Ruby community

The Ruby community never fails to amaze me. The other day I ran into problems with socket programming (in fact it was for the Amarok last.fm support). So I asked the friendly folks on #ruby-lang for advice. Advice I was given, and much more than that: One guy (hi Michael!) actually checked out and built Amarok from SVN, refactored the complete script (I know now how truly masterful Ruby code looks), then spent several hours tracking down a complicated bug and fixed it for me. He effectively saved our release with this contribution.

#ruby-lang is just like that. Whether you have a silly newbie question or a complicated problem, you will get help. And also I go there for playful banter

By the way, in case you haven't seen it yet, here's a sneak preview of the awesome new Ruby homepage:

Posted by Mark Kretschmann in markey at 17:07 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Nice ruby image, I think I like that way of replacing text on strings. I would always support ruby over python.

#1 vexorian on 2006-07-06 18:50 (Reply)

Yeah no doubt, me too. If you look at Python users, they just haven't checked out Ruby yet. Those that have, never go back..

#1.1 Mark Kretschmann on 2006-07-07 03:01 (Reply)

Can anyone suggest me best ruby books for doing an migration applicaton project. PHP5 to Ruby on Rails.

#2 ponnivalavan on 2007-02-24 07:29 (Reply)

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