From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T23:28:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeking Contributions for O'Reilly's Ruby Cookbook

Peter Hickman wrote:
> Daniel Lewis wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to see details about :
>> * blocks, closures and yeilding (and using Ruby functionally)
>> * Ruby/GTK
>>
> I speak with no authority (on anything) here but a cookbook is where
> someone who has a specific problem looks for a solution, so your first
> point would fall outside of the scope of a cookbook, being more of a
> 'ruby programming techniques' type of question, but the second is
> clearly in there. Perhaps I could also add
> 
> Documents
>    Creating PDFs from Ruby
>    Reading, searching and editing PDFs
>    Reading and writing excel files


I agree; a cookbook is more generally organized around tasks or goals; 
that one or another library or tool or technique is involved all depends 
on how well it helps solve a particular problem.

James Britt

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