Asp Forum - comp.lang.ruby.rails ?

naPOLeon

10/15/2006 12:29:00 PM

I'm a ruby-only developer (so no Rails) and I wondered why there is no
special Rails-Group. One main reason for rubys growing popularity is in
fact Rails. But if I want to get an answer for a ruby-only-questions, I
don't want to get those huge amount of Rails-specific topics. And it's
the same if I'm looking for some poor guys with prolems concerning
ruby-basics to help.
The people with questions concerning ruby itself can head for
comp.lang.ruby and the others with special Rails-problems can discuss
at comp.lang.ruby.rails
With more than 4000 members, I think there are enough coders outside to
fill both of these groups.

What do you think?

Regards,
naPOLeon

8 Answers

????? ????

10/15/2006 12:33:00 PM

> The people with questions concerning ruby itself can head for
> comp.lang.ruby and the others with special Rails-problems can discuss
> at comp.lang.ruby.rails

+1

Esad Hajdarevic

10/15/2006 2:00:00 PM

naPOLeon wrote:

> What do you think?

Great idea. I guess rails' mailing list could then be linked to that new
group as well.

Esad

Ben Bleything

10/15/2006 3:53:00 PM

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, naPOLeon wrote:
> I'm a ruby-only developer (so no Rails) and I wondered why there is no
> special Rails-Group. One main reason for rubys growing popularity is in
> fact Rails. But if I want to get an answer for a ruby-only-questions, I
> don't want to get those huge amount of Rails-specific topics. And it's
> the same if I'm looking for some poor guys with prolems concerning
> ruby-basics to help.
> The people with questions concerning ruby itself can head for
> comp.lang.ruby and the others with special Rails-problems can discuss
> at comp.lang.ruby.rails
> With more than 4000 members, I think there are enough coders outside to
> fill both of these groups.

Oh but there is! comp.lang.ruby is actually a gateway to the ruby-talk
mailing list, and messages are mirrored back and forth. There is a
Rails mailing list as well, and it's on Google groups.

I believe you can access it via NNTP using gmane's gateway, but I'm not
a big usenet fan so I don't know how that all works.

It might be a good idea to set up a new newsgroup and mirror the rails
mailing list. Can't hurt anyway, so long as the folks responsible for
that list are interested and someone wants to run it.

Ben

David Vallner

10/15/2006 3:56:00 PM

????? ???? wrote:
> +1
>

-1 for Slashdot imitation. (Eww, /.)

David Vallner

cardinale Albornoz

10/15/2006 4:20:00 PM

+1, from Italy

Austin Ziegler

10/15/2006 4:32:00 PM

On 10/15/06, naPOLeon <naPOLeon.Polzer@gmx.de> wrote:
> I'm a ruby-only developer (so no Rails) and I wondered why there is no
> special Rails-Group. One main reason for rubys growing popularity is in
> fact Rails. But if I want to get an answer for a ruby-only-questions, I
> don't want to get those huge amount of Rails-specific topics. And it's
> the same if I'm looking for some poor guys with prolems concerning
> ruby-basics to help.

There's not that many rails-specific questions, and almost all of them
are redirected to the Rails mailing list/Google Group.

> The people with questions concerning ruby itself can head for
> comp.lang.ruby and the others with special Rails-problems can discuss
> at comp.lang.ruby.rails

I'm not sure that's necessary, and setting up such a newsgroup would
be the responsibility of someone connected with the rails mailing
list, IMO.

-austin
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Gene Rogers

11/22/2006 11:33:00 PM

I think a separate group is an excellent idea.

In article <db567$45323f0c$557c507d$22324@news.inode.at>,
Esad Hajdarevic <esad.nospam@esse.at> wrote:

> naPOLeon wrote:
>
> > What do you think?
>
> Great idea. I guess rails' mailing list could then be linked to that new
> group as well.
>
> Esad

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Gavin Kistner

11/23/2006 2:57:00 PM

naPOLeon wrote:
> I'm a ruby-only developer (so no Rails) and I wondered why there is no
> special Rails-Group.

See:
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyon...

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