From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-12-16T06:17:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_

In article <e3ecfac70512151053y523c7364ha47b2b79b8985f8d@mail.gmail.com>,
Gavri Fernandez  <gavri.fernandez@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Aren't there "Advanced Ruby" books in japanese that could be
>translated? I've been hoping for a long time someone would translate
>that "Ruby Internals" book and others like it. But all I see is
>another cookbook from O'Reilly and a bunch of Rails books. There's a
>huge market here. I, for example, would buy any book that says
>"Advanced Ruby" on the cover (without even bothering to open the book
>and check out the contents) :-)

Sorry for replying twice, but I wanted to get to this idea of translating 
Japanese books.  In Japan they have lots of smaller books that cover the 
libraries.  They basically have a similar form factor to O'Reilly pocket 
guides.  I think that's the way to cover libraries.  One person may be very 
interested in GUI programming but has absolutely no interest in network 
programming (and vice verse).  Plus, as a library changes, the smaller 
single-focus book will be able to keep up with the changes much more easily.

Also, up till now there has been no Japanese Ruby book translated into 
English (except for perahaps Ruby in a Nutshell). I suspect that there are 
good reasons for this.

Phil