I would like to thank everyone for such a lively discussion! It has been a joy reading through and feeling the sentiment ebb and flow in that traditional HN fashion
For those curious and inquisitive minds out there, this article was intended to provoke emotion, fuel your creative soul, and pull you in to the Ruby source code. The precursor to this article was one I wrote on how IRB works and many of it's features. I had accidentally stumbled upon this "samples" directory and like many here wondered _why_ it is there and _what purpose_ was it serving. While many of the examples are a bit dated, they all make use of the standard library in various ways, and many make use of Ruby in ways _I_ hadn't seen before. Even if you don't care for the examples themselves, I hope to leave you with ample reading material to explore those unfamiliar crevices of Ruby.
As many have shouted, there are quite a few pain points in the Ruby language documentation, best practices, discoverability, and onboarding of new comers. This is an incredible time to be a part of this community and make this language as enjoyable to learn as it is to write.
```
ruby sample/biorhythm.rb
ruby: No such file or directory -- sample/biorhythm.rb (LoadError)
```
(I know I could simply copy these files off GitHub, but does the IRB on my computer already know about these biorhythm/calendar files somehow). Am I missing something?
git clone https://github.com/ruby/ruby.git && cd ruby