From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T08:50:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Free Ruby 'Cookbook' (48.71% done)

Randy Lawrence wrote:
>> Actually, I thought there was a successful and complete Ruby cookbook:
>> The Ruby Way, by Hal Fulton. It's not available online, though.
> 
> Any news if it'll be updated for Ruby 1.8 series?
> 
> I've heard great things about the book and Ruby 1.8 has a lot of new 
> features.

*Some* of 1.8 is already in there, especially in the appendix.

I'd like to do a 2nd edition. There's been discussion of it, and I've
taken extensive notes.

But it would be almost as much work to update it as it was to write it
in the first place. And there is the issue of size, since it is already
50% bigger in the first edition than it was planned to be.

I'd love to include an example for every web framework out there. How
many pages would THAT entail? Not to mention man-hours of coding and
debugging before the writing started.


Hal