Re: Ruby Docs

[Arafangion <thestar@fussycoder.id.au>]

On Thursday 15 June 2006 09:41, Tom Allison wrote:
> After running with Perl for some 7+ years I decided I would see what else
> is out there and my pick was to go from Perl directly to Ruby, passing
> Python entirely.
>
> And so it's been an interesting adventure so far.
>
> But I have two questions about Debian and Ruby and playing well together.
>
> I've run into a number of modules (fcgi, dbi, dbd) which have no
> documentation when they are installed via the debian package system.
>
> So my first question is this -- is this a Debian problem or an upstream
> problem?
>
> Second, is there something like perl's dh-make-perl for Ruby?
>
> Third, does gems have an assurance of bringing in these documents any
> better?

I wouldn't ignore Python altogether, but that aside, Ruby's documentation and 
maturity has always been lacking (I did my project in Python, because Ruby's 
wx binding sucked)