This is a follow up on my It all comes down to one thing - whether it gets the job done...

Like I said in my original post, the ruby net-ldap package didn't work for me. Couple of days after that, I had the interest to go back, and gave another try. In the end, I was able to make the ruby code work, and it all came down to one thing: document - the document for the ruby package wasn't accurate, and some method didn't do exactly what the document claimed.

Graham Barr did a great job, not only in the sense that his library worked and it was pretty OO, but also his library was well documented and there were plenty of examples came with the document.

As for the ruby library, I went back and checked it's history, appearantly it just got a group of new maintainers (or probably a single new maintainer). I suspect that the document was not a priority for them (not yet).

As a general observation, there are lots can be done to improve ruby document, even the document for the language itself.

Again, Graham Barr did do a good job on documentation!

Peter (Guo) Pei

In reply to Document, document and document by PeterPeiGuo

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