Expecting Rain

Once again, I feel rather sheepish about my lack of knowledge regarding a new language. I just don't know the available resources as well as I should. I spent a good bit of time this morning looking for a Ruby email parsing class. The usual search methods weren't turning up any good results and I was left contemplating writing my own. Then I stumbled onto the website RAA - Ruby Application Archive. What a wonderful site, it is a repository of ruby classes for every imaginable use. It has a great navigational system of possible libraries with sub category names -- in no time flat I was looking at a list of 14 relevant libraries. I chose to go with rubymail by Matt Armstrong.

I guess what I've learned from this is that different languages have a core set of essential resource websites that it is worth finding, bookmarking, and utilizing. This is obviously one for Ruby.