From: ES <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-10-21T03:21:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeking Contributions for O'Reilly's Ruby Cookbook

Peter Hickman wrote:
> Well we could start with a couple of chapters for ideas
> 
> Databases
>    Using dbi to access your database
>    Quick and easy databases with sqlite
>    Using activerecord

Or maybe introduce KirbyBase with a caveat "unless you really
need a RDBMS". Also, some of the other ORMs (Og, Kansas) are
interesting.

> XML
>    Creating XML documents
>    Processing XML with REXML

How about starting with "YAML. Seriously. YAML." and then, if
the user really wants to mess with XML, show off REXML and XML::Builder.

> Net
>    Automating web access with net/http
>    Using SSL for secure web access
>    Using Webrick
>    Using the Flickr API
> 
> Websites
>    Custom cgi scripts
>    Page templating for automatic site building
>    Forms processing
> 
> Basically we just need to think of things in terms of a user asking "How 
> do I ..."

This is definitely true!

> Just think of things that you can do with Ruby that other people will 
> also want to do.

E