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I can’t think of anything more valuable for us right now. Here’s a guy named Stephen Downes who’s spent several days plowing through Rubydom and he’s written down everything, I mean scroll-scroll-scroll-scroll and then turn page. On his Linux box, he runs through installing Ruby and Rails. Then, creating a Rails app. Same old, right?

The thing that makes these articles so valuable is the commentary on how long the steps took and what specifically was frustrating. Little things like places where documentation wasn’t obvious or commands that didn’t make sense. The dismissive will probably just shrug this off as a rant (or worse) but I wish I had such thorough commentary for all my projects. There’s so much to mine from this for RubyGems, Rails, everyone. Lengthier bug reports, you know?