Ruby on Rails

On 26 April 2012 15:04, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com> wrote:
> Also, telling people who are trying to learn Rails and being blocked by incomplete docs to write the docs themselves is really kind of silly ;-)

No this is the best thing to do. When you are experienced you tend to
forget what you need to know and the entry will be terse and assume so
many things. When a beginner documents something it will be just what
another beginner will need, down to the "obvious" things that
experienced programmers take for granted and assumes that everyone
knows.

Remember that an experienced programmer will probably skip the
documentation and go straight for the source code, so as long as the
source code exists then the documentation in perfect as far as an
experienced programmer in concerned.

What constitues good documentation depends on your needs. The OP is a
beginner and therefore wants beginners documentation, as such the
documentation written by another beginner would be ideal.

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