Rubyhelp wanted /offered

hi guys - I read some of the posts here & wanted to point out that
rubyforums.co.uk has just 'opened its doors' so to speak - anways
figured we could all use the best ruby communities possible so wanted to
let you know there are some cool resources there for anyone interested,
it's new remember so there arent loads of posts - but I picked up some
useful stuff there, I think if we get it going it has good potential,
bye for now :slight_smile:

Paul

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--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Okay, but its using forum software made in php. :slight_smile: The true ruby elitists will
have problems using the forum for religious reasons.

Tsume

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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 05:23 pm, PG wrote:

hi guys - I read some of the posts here & wanted to point out that
rubyforums.co.uk has just 'opened its doors' so to speak - anways
figured we could all use the best ruby communities possible so wanted to
let you know there are some cool resources there for anyone interested,
it's new remember so there arent loads of posts - but I picked up some
useful stuff there, I think if we get it going it has good potential,
bye for now :slight_smile:

Paul

tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com writes:

hi guys - I read some of the posts here & wanted to point out that
rubyforums.co.uk has just 'opened its doors' so to speak - anways
figured we could all use the best ruby communities possible so wanted to
let you know there are some cool resources there for anyone interested,
it's new remember so there arent loads of posts - but I picked up some
useful stuff there, I think if we get it going it has good potential,
bye for now :slight_smile:

Paul

Okay, but its using forum software made in php. :slight_smile: The true ruby elitists will
have problems using the forum for religious reasons.

Ruby is no religion.

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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 05:23 pm, PG wrote:

Tsume

--
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org

Hi --

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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com wrote:

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 05:23 pm, PG wrote:

hi guys - I read some of the posts here & wanted to point out that
rubyforums.co.uk has just 'opened its doors' so to speak - anways
figured we could all use the best ruby communities possible so wanted to
let you know there are some cool resources there for anyone interested,
it's new remember so there arent loads of posts - but I picked up some
useful stuff there, I think if we get it going it has good potential,
bye for now :slight_smile:

Paul

Okay, but its using forum software made in php. :slight_smile: The true ruby elitists will
have problems using the forum for religious reasons.

I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists.

David

--
David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net

"Ruby for Rails", from Manning Publications, coming April 2006!

Heretic!!! Recant!!!

</kidding>

As long as it works and I don't have to maintain it, I don't really
care what language an application is written in. I suspect most people
are like me.

Ryan

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On 1/3/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:

Ruby is no religion.

Christian Neukirchen wrote:

tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com writes:

hi guys - I read some of the posts here & wanted to point out that
rubyforums.co.uk has just 'opened its doors' so to speak - anways
figured we could all use the best ruby communities possible so wanted to
let you know there are some cool resources there for anyone interested,
it's new remember so there arent loads of posts - but I picked up some
useful stuff there, I think if we get it going it has good potential,
bye for now :slight_smile:

Paul

Okay, but its using forum software made in php. :slight_smile: The true ruby elitists will have problems using the forum for religious reasons.

Ruby is no religion.

Alas.

I keep hoping it will turn into a cult or a super-secret society, perhaps a mythical, creeping swarm of hookah-smoking code ninjas, or _something_, but then people on this list go and ruin it by being open and inviting and helpful to one and all.

Spoil sports.

James

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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 05:23 pm, PG wrote:

--

http://www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation
Ruby Code & Style - Ruby Code & Style: Writers wanted
http://www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
http://www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys
http://www.30secondrule.com - Building Better Tools

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists.

Whatever, dude. That's because we're too cool to hang out with you.

f.

In my humble, and possibly controversial opinion, I'd suggest it could be about the fact that the Ruby community seems to have a greater density of hackers than many others, so it's more common for Rubyists to know (and even love) several languages than with, say, Perl or Python, where a greater proportion of the community is probably mostly monolingual.

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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:39:13 -0000, <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists.

--
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk

James Britt wrote:

> Ruby is no religion.

Alas.

I keep hoping it will turn into a cult or a super-secret society,
perhaps a mythical, creeping swarm of hookah-smoking code ninjas, or
_something_, but then people on this list go and ruin it by

_This_ is exactly what cults do (or pretend to do) and not secret
societies:

being open and inviting and helpful to one and all.

Spoil sports.

James

Ruby does happen to be the biggest grassroots movement I've seen since
Mr. Linus Torvalds humbly introduced a new OS a while back. I suppose
there are similar other examples, but for this one ... well, I'm in.

As for ninjas, well, do your research.

Todd

Francis Hwang wrote:

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dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists.

Whatever, dude. That's because we're too cool to hang out with you.

LOL.

Hal

It'd be especially controversial if the sort of non-hacker that doesn't
know the classic definition of "hacker" saw that.

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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:42:57AM +0900, Ross Bamford wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:39:13 -0000, <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

>I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists.

In my humble, and possibly controversial opinion, I'd suggest it could be
about the fact that the Ruby community seems to have a greater density of
hackers than many others, so it's more common for Rubyists to know (and
even love) several languages than with, say, Perl or Python, where a
greater proportion of the community is probably mostly monolingual.

--
Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

"A script is what you give the actors. A program
is what you give the audience." - Larry Wall

Ross Bamford wrote:

I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists.

In my humble, and possibly controversial opinion, I'd suggest it could
be about the fact that the Ruby community seems to have a greater
density of hackers than many others, so it's more common for Rubyists
to know (and even love) several languages than with, say, Perl or
Python, where a greater proportion of the community is probably mostly
monolingual.

Your opinion is controversial and it is one of its quality.
I don't feel to belong to a Ruby community, Ruby is just the language I
love the best for now, I'm also a Ruby newbie and I don't know much
many other languages.
Maybe hackers may like Ruby because it let you write simple things
easily and less simple things too, in some other languages, the
complexness (??) is due to the language constructs and other
limitations, not to the problem to solve.

I don't know whether there is a 'true' definition of what is a hacker or
not, I think he is someone who, when he, by chance, have some problem
to solve, spend a a week apparently doing nothing, then writes 100
lines in an hour instead of writing in a week thousands lines of
unreadable code. Maybe hacking is spending time looking at problems
with an unusual sight, not searching for the usual pattern to apply.

At a language level, Ruby seems to provide very good stuff.

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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:39:13 -0000, <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

--
I do apologize for my bad English.

Chad Perrin wrote:

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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:42:57AM +0900, Ross Bamford wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:39:13 -0000, <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists.

In my humble, and possibly controversial opinion, I'd suggest it could be about the fact that the Ruby community seems to have a greater density of hackers than many others, so it's more common for Rubyists to know (and even love) several languages than with, say, Perl or Python, where a greater proportion of the community is probably mostly monolingual.

It'd be especially controversial if the sort of non-hacker that doesn't
know the classic definition of "hacker" saw that.

LOL!1!!

+2

u r teh 1337 42x0r!

rub'/ pwn5 j00r (0D3 !!1!

j4/\/\35

Heh, didn't think of that, I just had visions of the flames I'd probably get from that were this a different newsgroup :slight_smile: For the sake of the record, let me just say that I'm not insinuating anything at all about the lawfulness (or otherwise) of most Rubyist's activities :smiley:

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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:50:35 -0000, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:42:57AM +0900, Ross Bamford wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:39:13 -0000, <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

>I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists.

In my humble, and possibly controversial opinion, I'd suggest it could be
about the fact that the Ruby community seems to have a greater density of
hackers than many others, so it's more common for Rubyists to know (and
even love) several languages than with, say, Perl or Python, where a
greater proportion of the community is probably mostly monolingual.

It'd be especially controversial if the sort of non-hacker that doesn't
know the classic definition of "hacker" saw that.

--
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk

Harpo wrote:

Ross Bamford wrote:

I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists.

In my humble, and possibly controversial opinion, I'd suggest it could
be about the fact that the Ruby community seems to have a greater
density of hackers than many others, so it's more common for Rubyists
to know (and even love) several languages than with, say, Perl or
Python, where a greater proportion of the community is probably mostly
monolingual.

Your opinion is controversial and it is one of its quality.
I don't feel to belong to a Ruby community, Ruby is just the language I
love the best for now, I'm also a Ruby newbie and I don't know much
many other languages.
Maybe hackers may like Ruby because it let you write simple things
easily and less simple things too, in some other languages, the
complexness (??) is due to the language constructs and other
limitations, not to the problem to solve.

I don't know whether there is a 'true' definition of what is a hacker or
not, I think he is someone who, when he, by chance, have some problem
to solve, spend a a week apparently doing nothing, then writes 100
lines in an hour instead of writing in a week thousands lines of
unreadable code. Maybe hacking is spending time looking at problems
with an unusual sight, not searching for the usual pattern to apply.

At a language level, Ruby seems to provide very good stuff.

--
I do apologize for my bad English.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:39:13 -0000, <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

--
Mark

You're fired.

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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:41:48AM +0900, James Britt wrote:

>>
>>In my humble, and possibly controversial opinion, I'd suggest it could be
>>about the fact that the Ruby community seems to have a greater density of
>>hackers than many others, so it's more common for Rubyists to know (and
>>even love) several languages than with, say, Perl or Python, where a
>>greater proportion of the community is probably mostly monolingual.
>
>
>It'd be especially controversial if the sort of non-hacker that doesn't
>know the classic definition of "hacker" saw that.

LOL!1!!

+2

u r teh 1337 42x0r!

rub'/ pwn5 j00r (0D3 !!1!

j4/\/\35

--
Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

This sig for rent: a Signify v1.14 production from http://www.debian.org/