"I mean stuff like having better documentation, for example, online, free, in googleable format"
Do you mean for the core language? Are you not happy with http://www.ruby-doc.org/ ?
Do you mean for the core language? Are you not happy with http://www.ruby-doc.org/ ?
http://ruby-doc.org/q/<your search string>Here again I think it's interesting to compare to PHP's annotated docs ca. 2000, which were a great resource since they usually contained a few common usage examples for every function. The language itself was less consistent and mature than Ruby, but the user contributed (pre-Web 2.0! ;)) docs made up for it.