这是关于Why's (poignant) guide on ruby的中文翻译，目前正在翻译中。
在网上寻找关于学习ruby资料的时候，发现这本非常有趣的ruby指南书。但是网上基本都只有英文版，于是对照的英文自己做了点翻译。这样就逼迫着自己一定要看完，当然我的英语水平也是非常有限，难免会漏洞百出，请多多包涵并欢迎指正。
On August 19, 2009 Why the Lucky Stiff removed every trace of his work from the Web, including this book: the Poignant Guide to Ruby.
I've salvaged the book from the Internet archive and re-published it. The original work was under the Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Since then I have:
- Changed code examples to never generate syntax warnings
- Updated code examples to match Ruby 1.9 behavior
- Applied grammar/spelling corrections
- Updated outdated Ruby installation instructions
- Converted the HTML book into Markdown (_why originally authored it in Textile)
- Made a build system powered by Jekyll
- Enabled syntax highlighted code where previously there wasn't
Run script/jekyll to build the site with Jekyll.
The individual chapters are in _posts/ directory.
There's a Japanese translation of the book, although I can't tell how up to date it is.
The original soundtrack and PDF edition are also available in the download section on GitHub.
Chapter 8: Heaven's Harp was never recovered. I suspect _why started drawing it, but never finished or published.