I'm a ruby-only developer (so no Rails) and I wondered why there is no
special Rails-Group. One main reason for rubys growing popularity is in
fact Rails. But if I want to get an answer for a ruby-only-questions, I
don't want to get those huge amount of Rails-specific topics. And it's
the same if I'm looking for some poor guys with prolems concerning
ruby-basics to help.
The people with questions concerning ruby itself can head for
comp.lang.ruby and the others with special Rails-problems can discuss
at comp.lang.ruby.rails
With more than 4000 members, I think there are enough coders outside to
fill both of these groups.
The people with questions concerning ruby itself can head for
comp.lang.ruby and the others with special Rails-problems can discuss
at comp.lang.ruby.rails
Oh but there is! comp.lang.ruby is actually a gateway to the ruby-talk
mailing list, and messages are mirrored back and forth. There is a
Rails mailing list as well, and it's on Google groups.
I believe you can access it via NNTP using gmane's gateway, but I'm not
a big usenet fan so I don't know how that all works.
It might be a good idea to set up a new newsgroup and mirror the rails
mailing list. Can't hurt anyway, so long as the folks responsible for
that list are interested and someone wants to run it.
Ben
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On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, naPOLeon wrote:
I'm a ruby-only developer (so no Rails) and I wondered why there is no
special Rails-Group. One main reason for rubys growing popularity is in
fact Rails. But if I want to get an answer for a ruby-only-questions, I
don't want to get those huge amount of Rails-specific topics. And it's
the same if I'm looking for some poor guys with prolems concerning
ruby-basics to help.
The people with questions concerning ruby itself can head for
comp.lang.ruby and the others with special Rails-problems can discuss
at comp.lang.ruby.rails
With more than 4000 members, I think there are enough coders outside to
fill both of these groups.
I'm a ruby-only developer (so no Rails) and I wondered why there is no
special Rails-Group. One main reason for rubys growing popularity is in
fact Rails. But if I want to get an answer for a ruby-only-questions, I
don't want to get those huge amount of Rails-specific topics. And it's
the same if I'm looking for some poor guys with prolems concerning
ruby-basics to help.
There's not that many rails-specific questions, and almost all of them
are redirected to the Rails mailing list/Google Group.
The people with questions concerning ruby itself can head for
comp.lang.ruby and the others with special Rails-problems can discuss
at comp.lang.ruby.rails
I'm not sure that's necessary, and setting up such a newsgroup would
be the responsibility of someone connected with the rails mailing
list, IMO.