Re: [Fxruby-users] New to list - general questions...

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On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:20:45 +0100 (BST), Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng
<hg...@dm...> wrote :

> Could one apply the Mediator Pattern to this, and provide direct links
> to where people need to go, rather than telling them to poke around
> such and such websites?  I think that would be useful provided we
> can frame the questions so they are not brittle WRT version changes
> in FOX.  I think there may well be FXRubyists who never program FOX
> directly w/o ruby, so this would seem to be sensible from this
> viewpoint.

I'm not sure I follow what you mean by applying the Mediator pattern. Do you
mean that our FXRuby FAQ might duplicate some of the questions found in
other FAQ lists, but the answers to those questions would be hyperlinked to
the other FAQ lists' answers?

> >
> > Also, your first stop for reference documentation on the Ruby API should be
> > the docs found here:
> >
> >     http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api
> 
> Yes, that's a nice job, coming along well.  Thanks.  Can this be
> downloaded as a tgz, or zip file for browsing off-line please?

Yes, I actually just uploaded a snapshot of those pages to the SourceForge
site the other day:

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20243

> When I tried to run Rdoc on the FXRuby I'd downloaded I didn't get
> so much documentation embedded.  If your using different/newer
> sources it would be nice to get hold of those so I can send you
> patches when I feel able to contribute.

There are some instructions here about how to check out the CVS sources
(anonymously, with read-only access):

    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/cvs.html

Those should have the very latest sources that I'm using (under the
rdoc-sources subdirectory).