From: Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@...>
Date: 2004-12-11T05:45:49+09:00
Subject: Re: IOWA book ideas

I would be interested in hearing a really basic paragraph summary of
all sorts of cool Ruby toolkits and the comparisons with
like/competitive systems.  I've vaguely heard of Copland, IOWA,
Needle, Rails, Red/Blue/NoYellowCloth so on.   All I have experience
with is Rails, and I know there are some sweet things out there to
play with.   Ruby seems to collecting clean, powerful toolkits in the
same way other languages tend to collect bindings and modules -- which
I find pretty cool.   But finding them is the hard part, they are
alien.   Stuff like this really needs a link at ruby-lang.com, highly
visible, something like "Cool Things That Might Involve Ducks".

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 05:32:26 +0900, Joe Van Dyk <joe.vandyk@boeing.com> wrote:
> Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hi everybody.
> >
> > Since I've received positive feedback on the idea of
> > writing a book about IOWA, I'm taking this a small step
> > further.
> >
> > What would you like to read about IOWA?
> > - Installation issues
> >   - When to run on what
> >     - apache and mod_ruby
> >     - apache and fastcgi
> >     - webrick
> >     - on a benchmark or usability level?
> >   - other?
> > - How the West was won
> >   - a real-life report about creating a website for
> >     managing mailserver configuration
> >   - providing multi-language content
> >     - anybody here with knowledge on how Japanese website
> >       layout differs from Western ways?
> >   - other?
> > - other?
> >
> > Since we're talking about ruby-related material, I guess
> > replying here is ok. If you don't want publicity, you can
> > also contact me privately, the email adress is real, even
> > if it does not look like it :-)
> >
> > Let's collect some ideas and contact the prospective
> > publisher
> > next week.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > s.
> 
> What's IOWA?
> 
>