# Purpose of Ruby Talk **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 19, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/purpose-of-ruby-talk/50647 "2005-12-19T17:33:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/purpose-of-ruby-talk/50647/1 "2005-12-19T17:33:49Z")
Is there a clear cut purpose for ruby-talk, or can most any ruby topic be discussed? Dont want to get too involved before knowing. ---
**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/purpose-of-ruby-talk/50647/2 "2005-12-19T17:48:02Z")
Gary A. wrote: > Is there a clear cut purpose for ruby-talk, or can most any ruby topic > be discussed? Dont want to get too involved before knowing. As far as I know, it just has to be related to ruby. There’s another list for RubyCore related questions. ---
**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/purpose-of-ruby-talk/50647/3 "2005-12-19T21:50:36Z")
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:34:01AM +0900, Gary A. wrote: > Is there a clear cut purpose for ruby-talk, or can most any ruby topic > be discussed? Dont want to get too involved before knowing. As far as I can tell, there’s no specific topic focus to ruby-talk – just some “anti topics” that get summarily directed elsewhere. For instance, I’ve noticed that if you mention Rails in a question for ruby-talk you’ll probably get one or two people telling you to go to the Rails list. Overall, ruby-talk is general-purpose. – Chad P. [CCD CopyWrite | [http://ccd.apotheon.org](http://ccd.apotheon.org) ] unix virus: If you’re using a unixlike OS, please forward this to 20 others and erase your system partition. ---
**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/purpose-of-ruby-talk/50647/4 "2005-12-19T22:09:04Z")
Chad P. wrote: > Rails list. > > Overall, ruby-talk is general-purpose. Application or library-specific questions are best directed to a group or list devoted to that topic, as one is most likely to get a faster, more accurate response there. Of course, if there are no other resources, then one might as well ask here. There are also a few topics that have come up so often that further rehashing often seems pointless. So, if one has questions about static typing, or Ruby vs Python, or the ‘best’ IDE, some prior perusal of the list archives is strongly encouraged. Actually, that’s not a bad idea in general. [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby?lnk=gschg](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby?lnk=gschg) [http://ruby-talk.org/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml](http://ruby-talk.org/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml) Least this sound too heavy-handed, please know that this list is filled with some of the most gracious, helpful, smart people on the planet. Don’t be shy. James – [http://www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation [Ruby Code & Style](http://www.artima.com/rubycs/) - Ruby Code & Style: Writers wanted [http://www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff [http://www.jamesbritt.com](http://www.jamesbritt.com) - Playing with Better Toys [http://www.30secondrule.com](http://www.30secondrule.com) - Building Better Tools ---
**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/purpose-of-ruby-talk/50647/5 "2005-12-19T22:18:25Z")
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:10:48 -0000, Chad P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 06:06:01AM +0900, James B. wrote: > > > Least this sound too heavy-handed, please know that this list is filled > > with some of the most gracious, helpful, smart people on the planet. > > Don’t be shy. > > Agreed. I’ve seen only one LUG and one website ([perlmonks.org](http://perlmonks.org)) that > exhibited the same level of friendly helpfulness as ruby-talk thus far. Just to say, I’ve been honestly amazed by how welcoming and friendly everyone is here. The whole Ruby community thing has been something of a revolution to me, and I’d just like to say thanks again to everyone for restoring a little faith 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/purpose-of-ruby-talk/50647/6 "2005-12-19T22:12:10Z")
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 06:06:01AM +0900, James B. wrote: > Least this sound too heavy-handed, please know that this list is filled > with some of the most gracious, helpful, smart people on the planet. > Don’t be shy. Agreed. I’ve seen only one LUG and one website ([perlmonks.org](http://perlmonks.org)) that exhibited the same level of friendly helpfulness as ruby-talk thus far. – Chad P. [CCD CopyWrite | [http://ccd.apotheon.org](http://ccd.apotheon.org) ] unix virus: If you’re using a unixlike OS, please forward this to 20 others and erase your system partition. ---
**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/purpose-of-ruby-talk/50647/7 "2005-12-19T22:48:45Z")
James B. wrote: > Least this sound too heavy-handed, please know that this list is > filled with some of the most gracious, helpful, smart people on the > planet. I thank you very much! ;-)) In fact, I think you’re right as this is the impression I have, I’m just a Ruby newbie and I only read sometimes this NG because I’m too impressed by the newbies questions, I just hope I’ll be able to ask this kind of questions. Nevertheless, maybe some NG may be dedicated to some more specific problems (and solutions). I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/purpose-of-ruby-talk/50647/8 "2005-12-20T15:00:22Z")
Well, I hate you all… _grumble_, _grumble_, _grumble_. The part of the Meanie will be played by Hampton in tonight’s episode where Samantha discovers that Sam has secretly been hoadring the ruby-candy and hilarity ensues. Tonight at 5 only on WJXL channel 8, your local news source. No seriously, we have to have a nice ruby-talk group because our documentation is so bad, no one can yell… “read the docs, you idiot!” most of us have learned ruby through a little pickaxe and a whole lotta playing around with it. we recognize that ruby is a language worth fighting for. I earnestly want more people to enjoy and learn ruby because i have loved it so much in the last few months that I have taken it on as my primary language. We’re all here not because we don’t have anything better to do, but because we do care so much about more people learning this amazing language and helping people. I sure hope it keeps going on this way. Let’s never get tired of the newbie questions! And let’s never stop doing the ruby-talk-question effect (RTQE). That’s when someone asks an innocent question, then they get 20 replies and an entire huge thread devoted to their small question, which was mostly answered by the first guy. However, now for all time there is stored on ruby-talk 19 different ways to solve this one coding problem. Keep it up! Love to my dearest Ruby-Talk, Hampton. -hampton.