From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T10:13:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_

On 12/14/05, Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/05, rubyhacker@gmail.com <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.
> >
> > To summarize: About 100 pages deleted, about 250 pages added.
> > Updated from 1.6.8 to 1.8.4 (or thereabout).
> >
> > If you have comments or suggestions, feel free to make them.
> >
> > I can't cover everything, but I want to cover the important and
> > interesting
> > stuff (as time and space permit). If you see it in the "keyword soup"
> > below, it's under consideration. If you think I've forgotten something
> > important, please tell me in email.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hal Fulton
> >
> >
> > Keyword soup:
> > Rockit racc rbison io/nonblock readpartial StringIO csv Oniguruma
> > Madeleine Oracle DBI LDAP ORMs (AR, Og, etc.) define_method
> > const_missing
> > JTTUI Qt One-click installer EXERB imap pop3 SSL ssh tunnelling OpenURI
> > NNTP WEBrick Redcloth Bluecloth etc.  fastcgi Ruby on Rails Nitro
> > amrita
> > borges cgi-kit narf cerise SOAP REST WebDAV XML-RPC Okay (YAML)
> > Rinda and Ring CORBA REXML irb Test::Unit xmp pp rcov generator
> > enumerator
> > OSX KirbyBase Cocoa YAML iCal etc. vCard RSS RDF RMagick Flash (Alph)
> > PDF Rake mkmf extconf.rb SWIG Ruby/DL CVS Subversion gnuplot Mozilla
> > Java .NET RDoc RubyGems setup.rb RAA RubyForge ri vim emacs Scite
> > FreeRIDE RDE ArachnoRuby Komodo Eclipse Blog tools Wiki tools RCRs
> >
> >
> At least a small section on Rake would be excellent.

I think it's under consideration, considering that Rake is in that
'keyword soup'.