Is there an English version of the Ruby Hacking Guide?

Question

As far as I can tell, a complete English translation of the Ruby Hacking Guide does not exist. I find this unbelievable given the fact that it was originally written in 2004. Of course, a few attempts have been made:

• The RubyForge project is ostensibly the most official, but even a cursory look through the mailing list archives reveals that it has low traffic and is more or less dead.
• C. E. Thornton also took a stab at translating it, calling his version the Integrated Ruby Hacker's Guide. While substantial, it too is incomplete: the "blue" chapters are machine translated.

This site gives the most thorough background that I could find.

My questions are as follows.

1. Does anyone know if there is another significant English translation of the Ruby Hacking Guide available?
2. Is there an active translation effort in progress?
3. Even if someone were to produce an English version of the Ruby Hacking Guide, would it still be relevant?
4. Apart from the Ruby Hacking Guide, what is the best resource for English-speaking developers who want to work on/understand Ruby internals?

Answer 1

1. The most important stuff is already translated in your links. Ruby has changed a lot since 2004, especially with 1.9. It would be better to write a new Ruby Hacking Guide instead of translating the old one.

2. I read a lot of books about Ruby but the Dave Thomas' screencast was by far the best on understanding the ruby fundamentals. http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-dtrubyom/the-ruby-object-model-and-metaprogramming

There is always the option to read the original source code of Ruby. A good alternative is the source code of http://rubini.us/ as most of it is already in Ruby.