On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 03:18, Gavin Sinclair wrote: > On Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 6:33:17 PM, Mike wrote: > > > 2. What are the most definitive references for Ruby and the standard > > libraries that are available? I've found the reference at RubyCentral > > to be very helpful (http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/), but it also > > seems to be missing things here and there. On the other hand, it's > > possible that I'm completely mis-reading it. > > What you are reading online is "Programming Ruby, 1ed", a book by Dave > Thomas and Andy Hunt. The second edition hit the shelves recently but > there's no online version. It's a purchase you won't regret, and it > describes all the standard libraries by example, and all the builtin > classes in detail (up to date with the latest Ruby). > > Information about the standard library is also housed at > > http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib > > Cheers, > Gavin You can also buy the PDF version of this book from: http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/index.html which will cost $25.00, I think. Thanks, MOhammad -- [mkhan@localhost local]$ make love make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.