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You should be on ruby-talk

Started by avdi · 10 months ago

Working as I do in the Rails world these days, I’m periodically reminded of the difference between me and most Rails programmers. That is, the fact that I came to Rails via Ruby, rather than vice-versa. Usually this happens when someone at work or in the blog world expresses d ... Continue reading »

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Eric Anderson
1 year ago

I also got into Ruby before Rails (although only by a period of a few months so I was still a Ruby newbie when Rails first started making news). I also have experience the "Ruby can do XYZ" with my responding "didn't everybody know that". I also enjoyed the discussion on ruby-talk for a long while. But as Ruby continues to get more popular the volume on the mailing list got so high that I couldn't keep up with it. The content is good but the volume is just too much to keep up with. Seems to be a common problem on the best newgroups. Wish there was a way to combat that volume in a sensible way.

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avdi
1 year ago

Eric:

The best way I know is with a good client. I'm making do with GMail and filters right now - when I can't keep up I just archive everything with the "Lists" tag in one shot. But eventually I plan on starting to use GNUS again. It does help to have a client that's able to help you find the threads of interest to you and ignore the ones you could care less about.

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Kevin C
1 year ago

"One of the biggest disconnects for me is the fact that almost no one I know in the Railsverse reads ruby-talk regularly."

That puts me in pretty good standing since you know I read it ;)
.. need to work on contributing more but want to keep the S/N to a minimum.

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