Re: RubySpec link-up with RubyDoc

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> For those of you who don't know, RubySpec is a MediaWiki-based attempt 
> of mine to get community members to work together building a Ruby 
> specification. I figure this is the only real way we're going to get to 
> a complete spec, and it would additionally provide a comprehensive 
> online reference for the language itself.
> 
> Ruby-Doc does a great job of documenting what the Ruby developers have 
> been able to document, but it doesn't comprise a spec. Specifically, 
> deeper details of the language syntax, library implementation, and 
> platform or impl-specific quirks are largely missed. I'm hoping that 
> RubySpec can become the clearinghouse for such information.
> 
> RubySpec hasn't gotten a lot of attention, but there's a reasonable 
> start there and a few documents I've never seen published in any English 
> text or site. Because it seems like an important thing for us to do 
> (important enough that both matz and _why have made edits) I'd love for 
> Ruby-Doc to swallow it up. This would probably mean the following:
> 
> - I will move RubySpec to the host where jruby's continuous integration 
> and nightly builds are executing. It's a real hosting provider with all 
> the trimmings, and they've set up PHP/MySQL for me to make the move

PHP?

:)

(Oh, OK, I see; you need to run MediaWiki.)

> - We'd want a better domain...the machine is jruby.thresher.com right 
> now and just goes straight into Bamboo (our CI server)
> - I'd be very pleased if there were prominent links from Ruby-Doc to 
> appropriate pages in RubySpec as they become available. I think we need 
> to drive people toward the spec as much as possible, since it's publicly 
> updateable and should build upon the knowledge we share.



I've added links on the main page, as well as in the common sidebar 
(under 'More Ruby-doc') for the site.

Across the middle are sections for the core and Stdlib APIs.  In each of 
these I added links for the corresponding spec pages

James