Dave Thomas wrote: > > > On Dec 16, 2003, at 13:28, Carter Thompson wrote: > > Absolutely! I'm currently very fluent with Perl and I'm struggling > with Ruby. Lack of adequate documentation is making my learning > experience more time consuming and somewhat more frustrating. More > Ruby documentation would significantly improve my Ruby experience. > > > I'm working on one component of this as we speak. I just committed the > first Ruby interpreter source file with embedded documentation. Once > this task is finished, you'll be able to generate RDoc documentation of > all of Ruby (and any libraries that choose to participate). You'll also > have full 'ri' integration. Thats awesome, the one thing I missed from perl was the way perldoc would pick up newly-installed modules documentation. I think thats an incentive for module writers to write good doc too - if theres a standard tool that means people might read it, its worth writing :) Is the code in CVS anywhere? -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns