What's New and Shiny in Ruby 1.8.0?

[Meino Christian Cramer]

Hi,

just want to say "hello" to the group !

I just entered the Ruby sphere :)

...and it seems, that I have entered it one or two days to late,
since there is already a "What's New and Shiny in Ruby
1.8.0?"-thread, which is exactly what I wanted to ask first :O)

Is there any mail archive ?

...or may be a uptodate language reference

...or something to update my currently very limited knowledge of this
language?

I have already (most?) of the "Prgramming Ruby"- or "Learning
Ruby"-tutorials, but they are all not as new as Ruby 1.8.0 (which
whould not be understood as any form of critism !)

What I need is something like a reference.

Can anyone help or point me to anything helpful?

Thank you very much in advance !

Kind regards,
Meino

[Hal E. Fulton]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Meino Christian Cramer" <mccramer@s.netic.de>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: What's New and Shiny in Ruby 1.8.0?

> just want to say "hello" to the group !
>
> I just entered the Ruby sphere :)
>
> ...and it seems, that I have entered it one or two days to late,
> since there is already a "What's New and Shiny in Ruby
> 1.8.0?"-thread, which is exactly what I wanted to ask first :O)
>
> Is there any mail archive ?
>
> ...or may be a uptodate language reference
>
> ...or something to update my currently very limited knowledge of this
> language?
>
> I have already (most?) of the "Prgramming Ruby"- or "Learning
> Ruby"-tutorials, but they are all not as new as Ruby 1.8.0 (which
> whould not be understood as any form of critism !)
>
> What I need is something like a reference.
>
> Can anyone help or point me to anything helpful?
>
> Thank you very much in advance !

Here are some useful links for you...

[url]www.ruby-talk.org[/url]
Mailing list archives for English-language list
(going back to Dec 98). Shortly after the newsgroup
comp.lang.ruby was created, a two-way mirror was
put in place, so virtually all of c.l.r is also
archived there

[url]www.ruby-lang.org[/url]
Main Ruby site; also location of the Ruby Application Archive,
which is the principal repository of Ruby apps, libraries, and
documentation

[url]www.rubygarden.org[/url]
A wonderful wiki-based site, rich in content

[url]www.rubyforge.org[/url]
A new site. Like SourceForge, but strictly for Ruby.

[url]www.rubycentral.com[/url]
The Ruby site of the Pragmatic Programmers; some great articles
and links; home of the one-click Windows installer and home of
the online version of _Programming Ruby_ (aka the Pickaxe Book).

[url]www.rubycentral.org[/url]
A permanent home for Ruby Central, responsible among other things
for the annual International Ruby Conference. <plug>Go there and
register now for the upcoming conference in Austin in mid-November!
</plug>

[url]www.rubyhacker.com[/url]
My own site. A page of info on _The Ruby Way_, including errata,
sample chapter, and so on; a couple of Powerpoint presentations;
and other miscellany.

DISCLAIMER: There are other excellent Ruby resources. I just got
tired of typing here, and my memory fails me. If your site is not
listed, don't be offended. Plug it yourself!

So... go wild, my friend. :)

Cheers,
Hal

--
Hal Fulton
[email]hal9000@hypermetrics.com[/email]