There were many people who made significant contributions towards making the
new Ruby web site a reality, and I don't mean to marginalize their efforts.
But I do think that two people deserve special recognition because without
them the whole effort might have either died or been delayed another year.
I'd like to give special thanks to John Long. John took a couple months out
of his life to work fulltime (without pay) on implementing the design that
had been hammered out in the previous months. During this time John wrote
the Radiant CMS <http://www.radiantcms.org/> (in Ruby on Rails) specifically
for the Ruby web site, and then open sourced the project. If not for John's
willingness to do this, the whole project could easily have died from
neglect.
After John had finished implementing the new Ruby web site, there was still
the unglamorous task of converting all of the content from the old site, and
then rewriting and reorganizing much of it. I want to give special thanks to
James Edward Gray II for stepping up and managing this process (he actually
did a large percentage of the work, as well). Without James, it could easily
have taken another year to get the content in shape.
Finally, I'd like to thank Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and Shugo Maeda for
having enough faith in us in the beginning to tell us that "if we build it,
they would come"!
Curt
Thanks Curt and all those involved. What you have
done is excellent and presents a very nice face to the public.
I have one request. Can we add to the twenty minute Ruby
tutorial that you don't need Ruby installed but can use
the 'Try Ruby! (in your browser)' option.
These two links are just awesome when it comes to
introducing someone to Ruby.
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On 9/12/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
I've nothing useful to add, so: congratulations! Live for real. Great work.
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On 9/12/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
It took 18 months from inception, a lot of hard work from volunteers (and it
almost died a couple times), but the new and completely revamped Ruby web
site <http://www.ruby-lang.org/> is now live (there is also a Japanese
version <http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/>\)!
Wow! Very nice. The finishing touches you folks have put on since I'd
seen it last at the previous URL really polish it up nicely.
That book list page http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/book-list/ is very cool and
complete (though you'll want to move the "Ruby Cookbook" and "RoR Up
and Running" from "Coming Soon" to "Available Now").
There's only one remaining part of the site that sticks out to me as
looking unfinished. Look at he "Libraries" page
(http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/libraries/\). The command line I/O
snippets probably should be syntax highlighted in some way, possibly
similar to (but not too similar to) the code snippets. (I like a
darkish (but not too darkish) background, with the stuff the user
types showing up in bold.)
Again, really nice work.
The pic of Matz on the "About" page is a nice touch too.
---John
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On 9/12/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
I just posted this to the O'Reilly Ruby
blog [snip]
:
It took 18 months from inception, a lot of hard work from volunteers (and it
almost died a couple times), but the new and completely revamped Ruby web
site <http://www.ruby-lang.org/> is now live (there is also a Japanese
version <http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/>\)!.
I want to thank everyone who has pointed out problems that need correcting.
You are helping to make the official Ruby site even better!
One thing that would help us tremendously: When you suggest a change or
correction, please supply the URL for the page in question. Its taking
longer for us to find the relevant pages than to make the needed changes.
Thanks,
Curt
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On 9/12/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations! It looks great. Thanks to you, John, James and others
for your hard work - it's much appreciated.
--
Stephen Kellett
Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/software.html
Computer Consultancy, Software Development
Windows C++, Java, Assembler, Performance Analysis, Troubleshooting
Thanks Curt and all those involved. What you have
done is excellent and presents a very nice face to the public.
I have one request. Can we add to the twenty minute Ruby
tutorial that you don't need Ruby installed but can use
the 'Try Ruby! (in your browser)' option.
These two links are just awesome when it comes to
introducing someone to Ruby.
That book list page http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/book-list/ is very cool and
complete (though you'll want to move the "Ruby Cookbook" and "RoR Up
and Running" from "Coming Soon" to "Available Now").
I love how the update brings interesting new content on the site as opposed
to just a new design
Keep up the good work.
We owe you a lot.
Thanks
Guillaume Carbonneau
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On 9/13/06, Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/12/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just posted this to the O'Reilly Ruby
> blog:
I want to thank everyone who has pointed out problems that need
correcting.
You are helping to make the official Ruby site even better!
One thing that would help us tremendously: When you suggest a change or
correction, please supply the URL for the page in question. Its taking
longer for us to find the relevant pages than to make the needed changes.
