The New Ruby-Lang #
You remember the 2005 redesign of Ruby-Lang? Well, it’s on! We had a long dryspell trying to work out the code and the content, but John Long and James Edward Gray (the Second) really muscled together the remnants (along with Shugo Maeda doing Japanese translation) and now we’re inches from release.
http://new.ruby-lang.org/ is the temporary domain, for the next few days, while the mighty crowd helps us shake out the final bugs.
Today, at 4PM Eastern, discussion will commence on the vit-discuss list. Don’t leave site suggestions here in the comments. Incidentally, the new site is built on John’s Radiant, which has been such a helpful tool. Really, well done, John, James, Michel, Ben, David and Curt! (And Matz, of course, for being supportive and giving us all the resources we needed.)
thabenksta
Beautiful. Nice Work.
mfp
I was wondering… why very precisely 20H UTC ? email is highly async, it’s not as if it were an IRC gathering. Oh, it’s about time. /me checks
johannes
I think it would be better if the links in the right menu where boxes like the links in the top menu. Good work, it is very pretty. :-)
why
mfp: Out of respect. For us. And our times.
Male
Hi, where can I find a list of the colors used for the beatiful syntax highlighting?
MonkeeSage
In the stylesheet:
The background is an image, but it looks like it’s #22344a.
Brian Donovan
I really like the look of it. All I would change would be to slim the headers down a bit.
The ruby gem gif is gorgeous and would be just as lovely at about 1/3 of its current height.
Hank
Damn you and your announcing!
My Announcement
At least I posted mine earlier…:P
protoscript.net
oooo oooo! The code sample is soooo ooooo oooooo much better.
I love it!
protoscript.net
Hmmmm.. Wait a second. The first time I went, the code sample was nice and lean, without all the extraneous class stuff (which might turn some people off). Now it’s showing the old, bulky Greeter class (which is fine code, but I know I judge a new language partially by how many firey rings I nead to leap through to create “Hello World”. I’m sure others judge new languages in a similar manner, and I’d hate for them to be put off by the Greeter)...
Maybe it’s rotating, but I hit refresh about thirty times and couldn’t get the new, sleek code to load… :-/
protoscript.net
Oh phew! It is rotating. I just saw this when I checked the site again:
puts “Hello World!”
Simple beauty.
makenai
Hm.. how about a picture of matz without the redeye / akame thing going on?
http://new.ruby-lang.org/en/about/
murphy
Well, I guess it’s decided now that the Gem is the official logo * sniff * no Ruby-chan :...(
When I click on “Libraries”, there’s only a link to RAA , and none to RubyForge, which is much more popular afaik. What’s the problem?
murphy
Oops ^^
MonkeeSage
The rotating code is good, as the snippets address different targets: the trivial “Hello World” is good for people coming from lower-level languages like C++ and Java; the Greeter class example is good for people coming from perl and python. The Greeter class is very non-bulky, especially compared with perl:
cg
why the new site is so slow? is it on a old server or is the performance of ruby?
daniel
I think it’s the Digg effect
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