I just posted this to the O’Reilly Ruby
bloghttp://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/09/new_ruby_web_site_is_officiall.html
:
It took 18 months from inception, a lot of hard work from volunteers
(and it
almost died a couple times), but the new and completely revamped Ruby
web
site http://www.ruby-lang.org/ is now live (there is also a Japanese
version http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/)!. There is a page on the new web
site that acknowledges the hard work from the primary contributors, you
can
find it
herehttp://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/09/12/site-launch-at-last/.
There were many people who made significant contributions towards making
the
new Ruby web site a reality, and I don’t mean to marginalize their
efforts.
But I do think that two people deserve special recognition because
without
them the whole effort might have either died or been delayed another
year.
I’d like to give special thanks to John L… John took a couple months
out
of his life to work fulltime (without pay) on implementing the design
that
had been hammered out in the previous months. During this time John
wrote
the Radiant CMS http://www.radiantcms.org/ (in Ruby on Rails)
specifically
for the Ruby web site, and then open sourced the project. If not for
John’s
willingness to do this, the whole project could easily have died from
neglect.
After John had finished implementing the new Ruby web site, there was
still
the unglamorous task of converting all of the content from the old site,
and
then rewriting and reorganizing much of it. I want to give special
thanks to
James Edward G. II for stepping up and managing this process (he
actually
did a large percentage of the work, as well). Without James, it could
easily
have taken another year to get the content in shape.
Please go read the announcement
pagehttp://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/09/12/site-launch-at-last/to
see who else was instrumental in this effort.
Finally, I’d like to thank Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto and Shugo M. for
having enough faith in us in the beginning to tell us that “if we build
it,
they would come”!
Curt
On 9/12/06, Curt H. [email protected] wrote:
the new and completely revamped Ruby web
site http://www.ruby-lang.org/ is now live
Congratulations! It looks great. Thanks to you, John, James and others
for your hard work - it’s much appreciated.
Regards,
Sean
In message [email protected],
Sean O’Halpin [email protected] writes
On 9/12/06, Curt H. [email protected] wrote:
the new and completely revamped Ruby web
site http://www.ruby-lang.org/ is now live
Congratulations! It looks great. Thanks to you, John, James and others
for your hard work - it’s much appreciated.
Very nice.
Stephen
On 9/12/06, Curt H. [email protected] wrote:
I just posted this to the O’Reilly Ruby
blog<
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Thanks Curt and all those involved. What you have
done is excellent and presents a very nice face to the public.
I have one request. Can we add to the twenty minute Ruby
tutorial that you don’t need Ruby installed but can use
the ‘Try Ruby! (in your browser)’ option.
These two links are just awesome when it comes to
introducing someone to Ruby.
On 9/12/06, Jim F. [email protected] wrote:
done is excellent and presents a very nice face to the public.
I have one request. Can we add to the twenty minute Ruby
tutorial that you don’t need Ruby installed but can use
the ‘Try Ruby! (in your browser)’ option.
These two links are just awesome when it comes to
introducing someone to Ruby.
I’ll pass this request on to the team.
Curt
On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Curt H. wrote:
Without James, it could easily have taken another year to get the
content in shape.
I had some fantastic help from:
Damphyr
Dale M.
Eric D.
Alex C.
Three cheers for the nicest bunch of hackers a guy could work with!
James Edward G. II
On 9/12/06, Curt H. [email protected] wrote:
It took 18 months from inception, a lot of hard work from volunteers (and it
almost died a couple times), but the new and completely revamped Ruby web
site http://www.ruby-lang.org/ is now live (there is also a Japanese
version http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/)!
I’ve nothing useful to add, so: congratulations! Live for real. Great
work.
On 9/12/06, Curt H. [email protected] wrote:
I just posted this to the O’Reilly Ruby
blog [snip]
:
It took 18 months from inception, a lot of hard work from volunteers (and it
almost died a couple times), but the new and completely revamped Ruby web
site http://www.ruby-lang.org/ is now live (there is also a Japanese
version http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/)!.
Wow! Very nice. The finishing touches you folks have put on since I’d
seen it last at the previous URL really polish it up nicely.
That book list page
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/book-list/ is very cool and
complete (though you’ll want to move the “Ruby Cookbook” and “RoR Up
and Running” from “Coming Soon” to “Available Now”).
There’s only one remaining part of the site that sticks out to me as
looking unfinished. Look at he “Libraries” page
(Libraries). The command line I/O
snippets probably should be syntax highlighted in some way, possibly
similar to (but not too similar to) the code snippets. (I like a
darkish (but not too darkish) background, with the stuff the user
types showing up in bold.)
Again, really nice work.
The pic of Matz on the “About” page is a nice touch too. 
—John
On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:06 AM, John G. wrote:
That book list page
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/book-list/ is very cool and
complete (though you’ll want to move the “Ruby Cookbook” and “RoR Up
and Running” from “Coming Soon” to “Available Now”).
Fixed.
James Edward G. II
On 9/12/06, Curt H. [email protected] wrote:
I just posted this to the O’Reilly Ruby
blog:
I want to thank everyone who has pointed out problems that need
correcting.
You are helping to make the official Ruby site even better!
One thing that would help us tremendously: When you suggest a change or
correction, please supply the URL for the page in question. Its taking
longer for us to find the relevant pages than to make the needed
changes.
Thanks,
Curt
I love how the update brings interesting new content on the site as
opposed
to just a new design
Keep up the good work.
We owe you a lot.
Thanks
Guillaume C.