[ANN] Ruby Document Bundle

ruby-talk
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Just in time to wish you all a happy new year!

I’ve packaged several key Ruby documents into one TGZ or ZIP file and
provided a front-page for easy access. I call it “the bundle”.

Result: convenient off-line access to:

  • Pickaxe
  • Ruby Users Guide
  • Reference Manual
  • Ruby FAQ
  • comp.lang.ruby FAQ
  • Things that Newcomers to Ruby Should Know
  • Daniel’s Tutorial

plus a new document I wrote: “Getting Started With Ruby”, a guide to
the resources available to Ruby beginners.

  • INSTALLATION
  • download TGZ or ZIP from location specified below
  • unpack wherever you like (-> $BUNDLE_DIR)
    • it unpacks itself into ruby-doc-bundle directory
  • add $BUNDLE_DIR to your browser “favourites” (I make it my start
    page)
  • WHERE TO GET IT

For the time being:
www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/ruby-doc-bundle.zip OR
www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/ruby-doc-bundle.tar.gz

Pretty soon they’ll be conveniently located on www.ruby-doc.org.
(They are now, but they’re old. I’ll post here when they’re updated.)

Again, wishing all of you a happy and prosperous 2003.

Gavin

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I should add that these are 1149K and 934K, respectively. Just so you
know.

Cheers,
Gavin

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On Monday, December 30, 2002, 2:05:01 AM, Gavin wrote:

  • WHERE TO GET IT

For the time being:
www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/ruby-doc-bundle.zip OR
www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/ruby-doc-bundle.tar.gz

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  • WHERE TO GET IT

For the time being:
www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/ruby-doc-bundle.zip OR
www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/ruby-doc-bundle.tar.gz

Pretty soon they’ll be conveniently located on www.ruby-doc.org.
(They are now, but they’re old. I’ll post here when they’re updated.)

I’ve copied the updated bundles to ruby-doc.org

Again, wishing all of you a happy and prosperous 2003.

Thanks! Same to you and yours.

James

···

Gavin

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What, you mean there’s not just a single Ruby script I can download and
run from cron to keep it in sync on my local machine? :stuck_out_tongue:

– Dossy

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On 2002.12.30, Gavin Sinclair gsinclair@soyabean.com.au wrote:

  • INSTALLATION

–
Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
“He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly – then you can let go and quickly move on.” (p. 70)

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Is it allowed to set a link on my site to this downloadlinks ?

Jonas Hoffmann

Wish u all a happy new year.

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Am Sonntag, 29. Dezember 2002 16:05 schrieb Gavin Sinclair:

  • WHERE TO GET IT

For the time being:
www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/ruby-doc-bundle.zip OR
www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/ruby-doc-bundle.tar.gz

Pretty soon they’ll be conveniently located on www.ruby-doc.org.
(They are now, but they’re old. I’ll post here when they’re updated.)

Again, wishing all of you a happy and prosperous 2003.

Gavin

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Merci, c’est tout à fait ce qu’il me fallait.
Bonne année 2003.

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  • WHERE TO GET IT

For the time being:
www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/ruby-doc-bundle.zip OR
www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/ruby-doc-bundle.tar.gz

Pretty soon they’ll be conveniently located on www.ruby-doc.org.
(They are now, but they’re old. I’ll post here when they’re updated.)

I’ve copied the updated bundles to ruby-doc.org

Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language

Again, wishing all of you a happy and prosperous 2003.

Thanks! Same to you and yours.

James

Gavin

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What, you mean there’s not just a single Ruby script I can download and
run from cron to keep it in sync on my local machine? :stuck_out_tongue:

Not yet, at least. On my backburner is a plan to have a script fetch mirrors of assorted online docs and copy over to
ruby-doc.org. No reason that script wouldn’t work on any given machine (especially since I’ll be developing it on my laptop.)

Of course, if someone should write this before I get to it, that would be fine, too. :slight_smile:

James

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– Dossy

–
Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
“He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly – then you can let go and quickly move on.” (p. 70)

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Is it allowed to set a link on my site to this downloadlinks ?

Of course! Since the bundle is up on www.ruby-doc.org, that would be
the better link, I think.

It’s somewhere under Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language. You can link
to it directly if you wish (remeber there are .tar.gz and .zip
versions), or distribute it as you please.

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On Monday, December 30, 2002, 8:57:04 PM, Jonas wrote:

Jonas Hoffmann

Wish u all a happy new year.