From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T09:23:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_

On Dec 14, 2005, at 5:03 PM, rubyhacker@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello, all.
>
> Thought I might as well announce this "officially" as many people
> know it already.
>
> The ink is dry on the contract, and I am working on a second edition
> of _The Ruby Way_. Expect to see it second quarter of 2006.

This is just fantastic news.  The old version is quite out of date  
and yet still my second favorite Ruby book!

> Keyword soup:
> ...csv...

I realize this is tooting my own horn, but it would be great if  
FasterCSV[1] made it in there if only as a footnote.  I know it's not  
a standard library, but it reads and writes just fine and is almost 9  
times faster than the standard library.  This might be important  
since I've seen multiple complaints about CSV speed here and on Ruby  
Core.

I'm also hard at work adding cool new features to it that should be  
in long before the book is ready.  Features not yet is CSV.  :)

End advertisement.  We now return you to your regular programming.

James Edward Gray II

1:  http://rubyforge.org/projects/fastercsv/