From: Leonardo Eloy <leonardo.eloy@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T04:06:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Help requested: new book

Very nice initiative Mark, I'm also planning in writing a Ruby book in
Portuguese.
I'd suggest you to include how to integrate Ruby with "native OS
operations", such as "using syslog for you web application", "using
windows registry for ...", etc. Sure these topics would be in Section
III.

On 11/20/05, Mark  Watson <mark.watson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would appreciate some help defining the topics for a new free web
> book(*) that I am planning on writing. The tentative table of contents
> (which will change - especially if you make good suggestions :-) is:
>
> Enterprise Ruby
>
> Preface
> Section I: Core Technologies
> Chapter 1: Web Services
> Chapter 2: Dynamic Content Using Servlets and WEBrick
> Chapter 3: Ruby on Rails
> Section II: Enterprise Recipes
> Chapter 4: Adding Spell Checking and Correction
> Chapter 5: Using AJAX
> Chapter 6: Adding Search
> Chapter 7: Handling Documents
> Chapter 8: Report Generation
> Section III: Unusual and Useful Ruby Hacks
> Index
>
> There are many great books on using Ruby in enterprise settings and
> what I am trying to do here is filling in more information on topics
> that are not covered elsewhere to any great extent. This is why I am
> only planning one long chapter on using Ruby on Rails. A lot of Section
> II will be implemented on the Rails platform, but I am assuming that
> any reader has already worked through a few Ruby on Rails tutorials and
> is likely to have already implemented a few web applications using RoR.
>
> I wrote a free web book "Loving Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret
> Weapon" a few years ago and I received a lot of great ideas, feedback,
> error corrections, etc. from the Common Lisp community. I am not known
> in the Ruby programming community so I might not get the same level of
> help, but I am hopeful :-)
>
> (*) I am going to release this as a free PDF file under a Creative
> Commons license, but I would also like to find a publisher who would
> make hard copy versions available to readers who want a physical book.
>
>
>


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Leonardo Eloy, LPIC-1, FCSE, SCPJ