Hi Ross and Ed,
Thanks for suggesting the pull request I just submitted. Sorry I didn't submit it 
from a topic branch, as github recommended. My only excuse is that I was 
learning how to do it on the fly (git n00b) :)

And thanks also for the gem--it has been very helpful for me in developing a 
way to create MARC records inside a rails framework.
-Tony

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:08:53 -0400, Ross Singer 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Thanks, Ed.  That would have been a useful tidbit for me to have added :)
>
>Also, if there's interest, we can set up the Github Wiki for
>ruby-marc.  There is some functionality that would be difficult to
>explain (including the pros and cons) about in the rdocs, such as the
>XML parsers (and to write new ones) and there are some caveats on when
>to use field maps in MARC::Record and when find/find_all works better.
>
>Anyway, this seems like it might be useful, and if others think so,
>too, well, let me know!
>
>Thanks!
>-Ross.
>
>On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> Just in case it wasn't obvious, the source code is on GitHub [1]. As
>> Ross said, please consider forking it and sending a pull request for
>> any documentation improvements you want to do.
>>
>> //Ed
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/ruby-marc/ruby-marc
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ross Singer <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:
>>> Hi Tony, I'm glad that ruby-marc appears to be generally useful.
>>>
>>> Another (even simpler) way to do what you want is:
>>>
>>> record.to_marc
>>>
>>> Which, I think, would do the same thing you're doing with 
MARC::Writer.encode.
>>>
>>> If you want to write up a block of text to plop into the README, feel
>>> free to send some me some copy (wholesale edits also welcome).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Ross.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Tony Zanella 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> If I may suggest adding to the documentation for the marc gem
>>>> (http://marc.rubyforge.org/)...
>>>>
>>>> Currently, the documentation gives examples for how to read, create 
and write
>>>> MARC records.
>>>>
>>>> The source code also includes an "encode" method in MARC::Writer, 
which came
>>>> in handy for me when I needed to send an encoded record off to be 
archived on
>>>> the fly, without writing it to the filesystem.
>>>>
>>>> That method isn't in the documentation, but it would be nice to see 
there! It
>>>> could be as simple as:
>>>>
>>>> # encoding a record
>>>> MARC::Writer.encode(record)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your consideration!
>>>> Tony
>>>>
>>>
>>