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Literate programming with Github and Markdown

As a developer using Github, we often find ourselves browsing other people’s code. Sometimes it’s out of curiosity, sometimes it’s because we need to make a maintenance task, but in either case, it’s something valuable because peer review is a fantastic way to gain experience. more

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In a similar but different vein: http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/tutorials/agility

Where each step of a tutorial is in GIT, with markdown comments.

NBD, but rubinius totally had this first. Just sayin’. Also a shameless self-plug. But I digress…

Using Markdown is a nice break from the standard bird-feet and LaTeX docs. I’m working on getting literate programming back into rbx as a main feature so that you won’t even have to compile it ahead of time. IMHO, it should be a feature of ALL ruby VMs.

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