Le 23 mai 06, 08:36, Paul D. Kraus a ñÄrit :

> On 5/23/06, Joey <rubytalk / eachmapinject.com> wrote:
>>
>> Umm, maybe http://raa.ruby-lang.org/
>>
>> j`ey
>> http://code.eachmapinject.com/j`ey.rb<
>> http://code.eachmapinject.com/j%60ey.rb>
>>

I would add http://www.rubyforge.net

>
> Exactly what I was looking for thanks. Any good newbie faq's? Not 
> really on
> the programming side of things but more on the supplemental tools such 
> as
> the one you just gave me or good places to find online docs.
>
> Oh and the biggest one... What the heck is GEM.

Ruby package management. Many libraries/program are distributed with 
gem. Look for RubyGems on rubyforge.

> Why do scripts have both require and import statements?

'require' loads a file in your interpreter. 'import', don't know what 
that is. Are you talking about 'include'?

You may want to look at www.ruby-doc.org. In particular the Pickaxe 
("Programming Ruby") and the standard library documentation. And if it 
was installed properly on your system, 'ri' is very handy:

[gus@hibernatus ~]$ ri require
--------------------------------------------------------- Kernel#require
      require(string)    => true or false
------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Ruby tries to load the library named _string_, returning +true+ if
      successful. If the filename does not resolve to an absolute path,
      it will be searched for in the directories listed in +$:+. If the
      file has the extension ``.rb'', it is loaded as a source file; if
      the extension is ``.so'', ``.o'', or ``.dll'', or whatever the
      default shared library extension is on the current platform, Ruby
      loads the shared library as a Ruby extension. Otherwise, Ruby tries
      adding ``.rb'', ``.so'', and so on to the name. The name of the
      loaded feature is added to the array in +$"+. A feature will not be
      loaded if it's name already appears in +$"+. However, the file name
      is not converted to an absolute path, so that ``+require
      'a';require './a'+'' will load +a.rb+ twice.

         require "my-library.rb"
         require "db-driver"

'fxri' on rubyforge is good also.

HTH,
Guillaume.

>
> This way I quit hitting the list with things that have probably been 
> covered
> to death.
>
> TIA,
> Paul