Ruby Newsgroup FAQ

Originally written by: Conrad Schneiker
Currently maintained by: Hal Fulton
Converted to Pandora by: Julian I. Kamil

Revised: 2005-04-14

Welcome to comp.lang.ruby!

This FAQ contains information for those who want to:

1. learn more about Ruby, and want to
2. post to comp.lang.ruby or to the ruby-lang mail list, or want to
3. provide anonymous feedback to help us improve Ruby.

This FAQ will be posted monthly. If you are reading this material on the mailing list or the newsgroup, note that you can find it on the web at:

http://rubyhacker.com/clrFAQ.html

A German version of this FAQ is maintained by Josef Schugt. It can be found at:

http://oss.edrfunkstelle.de/ruby/

Note that this is not the Ruby language FAQ! That FAQ can be found here:

http://www.rubygarden.org/iowa/faqtotum/

Contents

1 About Ruby

1.1 What is Ruby?
1.2 Where can I find out more about Ruby?

2 About comp.lang.ruby

2.1 Tell me about comp.lang.ruby
2.2 Tell me the posting guidelines for comp.lang.ruby
2.3 Tell me about the prolific Matz poster
2.4 How do the mailing list and newsgroup interrelate?
2.5 What are these 6-digit message numbers?
2.6 What is “POLS”?

3 Anything else?