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
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