Try Ruby! is back

Ruby
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Thanks to Andrew McElroy, Try Ruby! is running again.

Source is available as well:

GitHub - Sophrinix/TryRuby: Try Ruby is a interactive shell that quickly and whimsically teaches the Ruby programming language. Originally _why's idea, it has been recreated from the ground up by Rubyists who have a passion for Ruby and for teaching their fellow (wo)man how to program.

May still need some love, so if you can help, pitch in.

–
James B.

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www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
www.neurogami.com - Smart application development

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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, James B.[email protected]
wrote:

Thanks to Andrew McElroy, Try Ruby! is running again.

Extremely awesome. Thanks!

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http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/

Seems a bit slowish, or perhaps it is my memory (I could swear it
responded a lot faster in the past)

Anyway I think it should be linked to from official ruby homepage too
once it works, because I think it is a great way to showcase ruby to
newcomers (or help oldcomers get a remote calculator quickly!)

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On Sep 1, 2:21 pm, James B. [email protected] wrote:

Thanks to Andrew McElroy, Try Ruby! is running again.

/cheers!

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On Sep 1, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Marc H. wrote:

http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/

Seems a bit slowish, or perhaps it is my memory (I could swear it
responded a lot faster in the past)

Anyway I think it should be linked to from official ruby homepage too
once it works, because I think it is a great way to showcase ruby to
newcomers (or help oldcomers get a remote calculator quickly!)

We’ve had it there before. I took it down because people complained
about the dead link. Let’s see how the restoration goes and then we
can make that call.

James Edward G. II

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James Edward G. II wrote:

On Sep 1, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Marc H. wrote:

http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/

Seems a bit slowish, or perhaps it is my memory (I could swear it
responded a lot faster in the past)

Anyway I think it should be linked to from official ruby homepage too
once it works, because I think it is a great way to showcase ruby to
newcomers (or help oldcomers get a remote calculator quickly!)

We’ve had it there before. I took it down because people complained
about the dead link. Let’s see how the restoration goes and then we
can make that call.

I see it’s linked from Ruby Programming Language

Could it be given a Ruby URL, e.g. http://try.ruby-lang.org/ ? That
would make it easier to bookmark and allow it to move in future.

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I had never looked at this before but it is absolutely brill! Found a
couple of things that don’t work as they should so will have a go at
sorting it out

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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:38 PM, David M.[email protected] wrote:

On Tuesday 01 September 2009 08:42:19 pm Marc H. wrote:

http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/

Seems a bit slowish, or perhaps it is my memory (I could swear it
responded a lot faster in the past)

It responds quickly enough, but seems completely broken for me. At least, when
I try to evaluate anything, the return value is a single sort of dark-brownish
space.

“We will be back in a few hours. Someone discovered a security hole.
They reported it, but not until someone else thought it would be cute to
drop a rootkit in.”

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On Tuesday 01 September 2009 08:42:19 pm Marc H. wrote:

http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/

Seems a bit slowish, or perhaps it is my memory (I could swear it
responded a lot faster in the past)

It responds quickly enough, but seems completely broken for me. At
least, when
I try to evaluate anything, the return value is a single sort of
dark-brownish
space.