On 10/15/06, naPOLeon <naPOLeon.Polzer / gmx.de> wrote:
> I'm a ruby-only developer (so no Rails) and I wondered why there is no
> special Rails-Group. One main reason for rubys growing popularity is in
> fact Rails. But if I want to get an answer for a ruby-only-questions, I
> don't want to get those huge amount of Rails-specific topics. And it's
> the same if I'm looking for some poor guys with prolems concerning
> ruby-basics to help.

There's not that many rails-specific questions, and almost all of them
are redirected to the Rails mailing list/Google Group.

> The people with questions concerning ruby itself can head for
> comp.lang.ruby and the others with special Rails-problems can discuss
> at comp.lang.ruby.rails

I'm not sure that's necessary, and setting up such a newsgroup would
be the responsibility of someone connected with the rails mailing
list, IMO.

-austin
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