Progress is slowly creeping forward on the Ruby version of PLEAC (Programming Languages Alike Cookbook), which is an attempt to represent the recipes in the Perl Cookbook in a variety of languages. I’ve been aware of the project for a couple of years, but only got around to joining the mailing list a few weeks ago.

I’ve submitted some 20+ Ruby sections in the last couple of weeks, trying to top off a few early chapters to the 100% mark. Currently, chapters 1,2,3,4,9, and 10 are done. Chapter 5 is missing an ordered hash recipe (should be coming soon). Chapter 6 (patterns) is just over 81% now, and chapter 7 should be close to 60% once a few recent submissions are accepted and committed. Chapter 8 sits at 33% at the moment. The first half (chapters 1-10) of the Ruby version could be brought to 100% in a relatively short time (though a few longish programs are still needed).

There are also significant inroads in many of the chapters in the second half (chapters 11-20). It might be a nice boon for Ruby to become the first language to achieve a 100% complete PLEAC (at the moment Ruby sits at 58.71% of completion, behind only Python’s 59.14%) hint hint :-)

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