On Jun 26, 2007, at 5:00 AM, David Rush wrote:

> I've been getting into Ruby programming - largely because of Rails -
> and enjoying it rather a lot. It certainly compares favorably to my
> other favorite of Smalltalk and Scheme; however, I *do* have one
> significant issue.
>
> I CAN'T FIND A BLOODY ACCURATE AND UP TO DATE LANGUAGE DEFINITION
>
> I've been working based on hint, allegations, and things left unsaid
> (with a surprising degree of success I must add) in many sources of
> web content, but my frustration is starting to get pretty - well
> frustrating. Note that I said 'language defnition' above, the
> libraries are very well documented.
>
> I have to be missing something obvious. What am I missing?

The pickaxe book.

    http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html

The PDF version is particularly helpful while you writing code.

Regards, Morton