Rubyinstaller devel - Jul 2009 - Docs included in a separate documentation installer?

[...snipped from "ri documentation in final installer?" thread...]

In the above thread we kicked around the idea of putting the documentation in a
separate installer from the main Ruby runtime installer.  Both installers would
be available from the same download area.

Thoughts?



Luis also brought up the following Which Documents Should Be Included topic....

Candidates for better documentation than "Programming Ruby" are:

The Little Book of Ruby, 1.1MB:
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Little-Book-Of-Ruby

The Book of Ruby, 2.9MB:
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Book-Of-Ruby

Let''s start a new thread about this, since Programming Ruby 1st
edition has become so old and sometimes is inaccurate reference.

Now, for Ruby-core and Stdlib, the option will be a CHM file.

Sounds good?
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Luis Lavena
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On 07/07/2009 21:21, Jon wrote:
> [...snipped from "ri documentation in final installer?"
thread...]
>
> In the above thread we kicked around the idea of putting the documentation
in a separate installer from the main Ruby runtime installer.  Both installers
would be available from the same download area.
>
> Thoughts?
How about Jeremy McAnally''s (aka Mr. Neighborly) Humble Little Ruby
Book?

http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/

A link to Chris Pine''s excellent Learn to Program tutorial would also
be
cool:

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

The http://railsapi.com site also provides a super-sweet interface to 
not only the Rails API docs, but also the Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9 docs. 
Click the "select some gems" link, then untick Rails, then select your
choice of Ruby API docs from the dropdown. You can then either download 
or browse online. I''ve got the browse online version setup as a Chrome 
app so that it loads and works as fast as a desktop app.

Charles

> The http://railsapi.com site also provides a super-sweet interface to not
> only the Rails API docs, but also the Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9 docs. Click the
> "select some gems" link, then untick Rails, then select your
choice of Ruby
> API docs from the dropdown. You can then either download or browse online.
> I''ve got the browse online version setup as a Chrome app so that
it loads
> and works as fast as a desktop app.
Speaking of links to online documentation, a link to
http://allgems.ruby-forum.com/ would be nice :)

=r